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Kirill Filimonov serves as a Grant Holder at Uppsala University's Department of Informatics and Media within the Faculty of Social Sciences, while concurrently holding an Associate Researcher position at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. He is currently awarded the prestigious Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (2024–2026) for his postdoctoral research examining the mediated transformation of military conflict through Russian exiled news media.
His research spans media studies, political communication, and discourse analysis, with concentrated expertise in Russian alternative media ecosystems, social media's impact on electoral politics, and nation branding dynamics. Filimonov employs critical discourse analysis to investigate how marginalized media outlets challenge state hegemony, while his earlier work analyzed visual campaigning on Instagram during Swedish elections and feminist political discourse construction.
Publication trends reveal consistent focus on power dynamics in media representation, with recent work expanding into Eastern European contexts including Moldova's nation branding and Russian exile media's role in conflict transformation. His methodological approach integrates discourse theory with material-semiotic frameworks to examine affective dimensions of grassroots media production.
- Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (2024-2026)
Filimonov maintains active international collaborations, notably with Nico Carpentier across multiple publications addressing climate change discourse, indigenous rights representation, and Russian media activism. His research demonstrates strong engagement with European academic networks through affiliations at Uppsala University and EHESS Paris, though specific grant details beyond the Sasakawa fellowship aren't documented in the source material.
His scholarly output indicates leadership in analyzing digital-era political communication across Scandinavian and post-Soviet contexts, with emerging work on commercial nationalism and conflict mediation through exile media channels.
