A SET OF PRECONCEPTIONS
The Russian ruling elite does not have a coherent concept of national politics, but instead has a set of prejudices that were inherited from the Soviet times. At that, these are the very prejudices that make the State’s approach with respect to the national sphere rather ambiguous.
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10 февраля 2011
MISSIONARY NATION
Russians, like the English, are a ‘missionary nation,’ that is, they dissolved their national identity in a universal mission, that of holding together a great multiethnic empire, and of spreading Orthodox Christianity – or Communism in the 20th century – to the rest of the world. |
10 февраля 2011
DEMOCRACY, NOT ETHNOCRACY
Different models can be used in the process of nationbuilding. Which model in your opinion is the most successful?
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10 февраля 2011
