RUSSIAN ORTHODOX FUNDAMENTALISM AS AN ELEMENT OF HYBRID WARFARE
Journal: European Political and Law Discourse
Year: 2021

The article examines the methods of struggle of Russian Orthodox fundamentalism, as part of a hybrid war, which Russia uses to build the "Russian World". Russia stepped up its actions after 2014. Various methods of hybrid influence were used against Ukraine. In the first two phases, Russia used its own military forces to occupy Crimea. After that, Russia began to use separatist troops in the Donbass to seize the east of Ukraine. To completely destabilize Ukraine, Russia began to use Orthodox fun