‘Russkiy mir’: Russian Identity as a Soft Power in the Balkans
Journal: Slavâne i Rossiâ
Year: 2020

The research is focused on different civilizational vectors of the Russian popular doctrine ‘Russkiy mir’(i.e. ‘Russian world’) and its impact on the Balkans. The author also pays attention to the Slavic ideological vector of Russia in the Balkans – Panslavism, the historiosophic vector of Russian Idea as European and Messianic at the same time, the spiritual identity of Russkiy Mir – the ‘Holy Russia’ and the religious identity of Russian Orthodox civilization. The Great Return of Russia to the