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Vitaly Kazakov is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His research interests include politics and mediation of sport, soft power, international broadcasting, new media, and audiences.

Vitaly’s new research project explores the political legacies of major football tournaments in a comparative setting, and will include interviews with journalists and fans, as well as media coverage analysis.

He obtained his PhD in Russian Studies at the University of Manchester with a study of the promotion, mediation, and reception of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Previously, he worked as a Lecturer in Politics at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester, and a RANNÍS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Iceland.

External positions

Honorary Lecturer in the School of Environment, Education and Development , University of Manchester

1 Sept 202331 Aug 2026

Keywords

  • Strategic communication
  • Narrativity/storytelling
  • Democracy and power
  • The international community
  • Ideology and attitudes
  • The EU and Europe
  • Russian
  • Research and survey methods
  • Anthropology of sport
  • Cultural analysis of sport
  • History of sport
  • Narratives
  • Representations
  • Nationalism
  • Identity
  • Globalisation
  • Rituals
  • Interviews
  • Qualitative methods
  • Comparative methods
  • Canada
  • UK
  • Sport
  • Russia
  • Iceland
  • Communication theory
  • Analysis of the media as an institution
  • Reception analysis/reception research

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