Anniken T. Langøigjelten (b. 1982 in Trondheim) studied Russian and Comparative Literature in Bergen and Trondheim. She received her BA degree in 2005 and is now a MA student at the University of Bergen. Her MA thesis will explore, in a comparative perspective, the verbal handling of the Chechnya wars by the Russian presidents Eltsin and Putin. More specifically, it will study the ways in which particular words are used to designate and characterize the wars, the Chechens, etc. In trying to highlight the different approaches of Eltsin and Putin, it will investigate to which degree the choice of words of the Russian presidents is influenced by international politics.

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