Why They Call “Russian World” the Russians’ New Religion

April 05, 2022
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Putin’s regime justifies eight years of war and occupation of Ukrainian territories with a “noble” goal — to protect Russian-speaking Slavs from the supposedly rotten West and from Nazi radicals. In the Kremlin, they call it denazification. But the Russians themselves cannot be called anything other than fascists, while the notorious “Russian world” is nothing more than revived Hitler’s concept of “dominant race”, informs “Dom”.

Mykhailo Mischenko

Deputy Director, Sociological Service

Born in 1962 in Kyiv

Education: Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, Faculty of Philosophy (1984). Ph. D in Philosophy

Empoyment:

1984 – 1990 — Sociology Department at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1990 – 1998 — Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1998 – 2003 — Ukrainian Institute of Social Research

February – September 2003 — Kyiv International Institute of Sociology

Since October 2003 — Deputy Director, Razumkov Centre Sociological Service

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mishchenko@razumkov.org.ua

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