https://journals.lnb.lt/relevant-tomorrow/issue/feedRelevant Tomorrow2024-02-26T11:38:00+00:00Editorial Board of the Relevant Tomorrow Journal / Aktualu rytoj žurnalo redakcinė kolegija Relevant.Tomorrow@lnb.ltOpen Journal Systems<p><em>Relevant Tomorrow</em>, a Diamond Open Access peer-reviewed bilingual periodical aimed at promoting academic dialogue and interdisciplinary relations in the social sciences and humanities, is published by the <a href="https://lnb.lt/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania</a> from 2021. The journal's focus and scope include: media and information literacy, security of the information environment, methodology and applied research in communication and information sciences, digitization and digital publishing, library science and bibliography, interdisciplinary reading research, actualization of the documentary heritage, and research in the field of history of culture and Lithuanian studies.</p>https://journals.lnb.lt/relevant-tomorrow/article/view/836Folk Mythologems of the Late 19th-Century Russian Slavophiles and Right-wing Narodniks in the Propaganda of Putinism of the Early 21st Century2023-07-24T11:48:23+00:00Kęstutis Šapokakestas.sapoka@gmail.com<p>Russia’s war against Ukraine has made the research on the historical logic and socio-ideological semantics of Putin regime’s propaganda “arguments” that supposedly justify aggression against a sovereign state relevant. The article compares the notions of folk traditions and customs exploited by 19th-century Russian intellectuals, i.e., Slavophiles and right-wing Narodniks, and in Putin regime’s propaganda in the 2000s-2020s, which function as a set of mythologems and ideologemes. It raises the question of the historical and political appropriation of Slavophile and right-wing Narodnik ideology in Putin regime’s propaganda used in the various contexts of the war in Ukraine. The research highlights an ambiguity: on the one hand, it is erroneous to directly link the postulates of the Russian political regime of the early 21st century to the conservative political thought of 19th-century Russia (Slavophiles) and the Narodnik ideology. On the other hand, the fundamentals of the notions of folk traditions and customs formulated by the Slavophiles and the right-wing Narodniks of the 19th century are still alive in today’s Russian cultural memory, and they are used as elements of political populism in Putin’s propaganda. The article argues that the partial appropriation of the ideas of the 19th-century Russian Slavophiles and the right-wing Narodniks should be treated as one of the elements of situational ‘traditionalism’ used by political populism and not as a historical continuity in the literal sense of the word.</p>2022-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 2022https://journals.lnb.lt/relevant-tomorrow/article/view/%20The Populist Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Lithuania: From Criticism to Conspiracy Theories2023-11-15T12:21:32+00:00Karolis Jonutiskarolis.jonutis@gmail.com<p>The COVID-19 crisis became a great opportunity to spread populistic discourses that were usually accompanied by conspiracy theories. The article reveals a gradual process of politicization of the crisis by various Lithuanian populist actors, transforming the COVID-19 pandemic from a medical issue into a political one. Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism combined with William Felstiner’s framework of politicization conceptualize these processes. The research showed that populist actors used a specific discourse dynamic to make the pandemic a political issue, moving from criticism of the specific measures to manage the pandemic, to an abstract and negative assessment of the situation as a whole.</p>2022-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 2022