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Research and projects

Here you will find information about past and future research activities (including projects and publications) of the Centre for Oriental Studies.

2025

  • Sazonov, V. (2025). "Chapter 6 The Prehistoric Sacred Places/Temples of Malta and Western Asia (IX–Mid IV Millennia BC)". In The Human and the Divine. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004678316_009
  • Sazonov, V. (2025). Pax Russica and Kremlin's influence activity: Russian strategic narratives and propaganda disseminated for Estonian audience. In: Arkadiusz Zukowski (Ed.). Public Diplomacy - Education of the society on disinformation: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. (71−100). Wydawnictwie Naukowym FNCE.
  • Makarychev, A., Sazonov, V. (2025). Governmentality, financial security and money laundering: the Estonian case of Danske Bank. Secur J 38, 16. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-025-00463-7

2024

  • Yatsyk, A., & Sazonov, V. (2024). Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 31(1), 20–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2343820
  • Espak, P.; Sazonov, V. (2024). The Origin of Estonian Ancient Near Eastern studies from the 19th Century and its developments until the present day. In: Hans Neumann, Sebastian Fink (Ed.). Towards a History of Assyriology. (x−x). Münster: Zaphon Verlag
  • Fink, S.; Sazonov, V. (2024). The 12th Century Collapse and Assyria. Turning Point or “Usual Crisis”. In: M. Kõiv; R. Kletter (Ed.). Responses to the 12th Century BC Collapse: Recovery and Restructuration in the Early Iron Age Near East and Mediterranean.. (19−45). Münster: Zaphon. Publications on the Ancient Near East, the Old Testament, Ancient Egypt and Classical Antiquity.
  • SCHUMANN; Andrew; SAZONOV, Vladimir; TÖYRÄÄNVUORI, Joanna (2024). Algebraic Structure of Ancient Mesopotamian Omens. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 93, 63−78. DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2024.93.omen.

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