“Russian World” as a political and cultural weapon of modern Russia

• Poiarkova, Tetiana ^[1]
  1. [1] Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
• Localización: Revista Amazonia Investiga, ISSN-e 2322-6307, Vol. 12, Nº. 61, 2023, págs. 69-79
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article raises the question of “Russian world” political and cultural concept that is the mobilizing and legitimating factor not only for citizens of Russia but also for Russian speaking people from other countries in the Russian-Ukrainian war. The author grounds the idea that the political concept of “Russian world” is conditioned by: the potential that is a pledge of power and survival keeping for the regime of post-communist Russia; the ability to create new solidarity beyond territory and history that will compensate psychological consequences of dramatic concatenation of political humiliation, economic decline, cultural nihilism and general chaos after the defeat in the Cold War and ruining of the USSR; striving for justification of military invasion into the territory of independent Ukraine and system terror against civilian population. The article answers the question why in the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation we can see the dehumanization of Ukrainians as an enemy and the increase in the infringement of all the rules of modern war (mass marauding, assaults and shootings, moving of civilian population to filtration camps and total destruction of social infrastructure in just those cities where the majority of population speak Russian and are well disposed to the concept of “Russian world”).