PANSLAVISM IN MODERN RUSSIA: ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL DIMENSION (based on M. Danilevsky's ideological heritage)
Journal: Problems of Slavonic studies
Year: 2019

Abstract Background: While international tensions increase and Russia's relations with the US and the European Union are worsening as a result of the annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Eastern Ukraine, the presence of Panslavic ideas in the Kremlin's propaganda arsenal becomes more and more visible. Russian politicians, scholars, and conservative public figures often voice the central thesis of Panslavism about the difference and the eternal confrontation between Russia and the We