Il paese di Putin

"The Country of Putin. 20 Russian Words at the Service of Propaganda" (Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2026)

Dialogue with the author Gian Piero Piretto and journalist Anna Zafesova

Through twenty keywords, Piretto's book reconstructs how political and cultural vocabulary is mobilized in contemporary public discourse to build consensus and shape the collective imagination.

A historian of Russian culture and a lecturer at the University of Milan, Piretto has dedicated much of his research to the relationship between language, images, and ideology in the post-Soviet space.

Piretto engages in dialogue with Anna Zafesova, a journalist, translator, and essayist, one of the most attentive voices on contemporary Russia, who has been observing and narrating the political and cultural transformations of the post-Soviet region for years.