Journal: AREI
Year: 2024

5froM The edITor-In-ChIef 2023 9 russIan sTaTe IdeoloGy has been referrInG soviet times: "nam nužen mir, no želatelʹno vesʹ" (we need the peace, but preferably the whole).That will be untranslatable into English.Because "mir" means both peace and world.-We need both peace and the world, ideally all of it [laughs].In any case, that approach has been around for a few hundred years.The nineteenth-century ideology, when that was the justification for the partitions of the polish-lithuanian Commonwea