The article aims to systematize the current academic discussion about essential elements of idea Belarusian nation. Within framework analysis, author identifies "semantic baskets", based on which he divides controversy into theoretical schools and thematic clusters. designated semantic baskets are identified attitude language issue culture, history historical memory, interpretation nation, terr...

The Kosovo war of 1999 brought the checkered legacies of Russian and Western geopolitics back to the forefront of international relations. Central to the discussions of the Balkans is its century-old legacy as a Shatterbelt or Crush Zone. Though not identified by Saul Cohen as a Shatterbelt during the Cold War, the region is now located where the maritime (Western) and land power (Russian) geos...

By applying methods of cognitive metaphor theory, Jaworska examines metaphorical scenarios employed in the discourse of anti-Slavism, which featured prominently in radical nationalist propaganda in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. She does so by analysing metaphorical expressions used to refer to the Polish population living in the eastern provinces of Prussia, in the so-called Ost...

The national awakening of the Southern Slavs resulted in concurrent rise distinct identities, on one hand, and collective perception need for pan-Slav unity, other. Their distant ‘kin’—tsarist Russia—was also embroiled two opposing approaches to issue: pro-Europeanism pan-Slavism, whom latter envisaged a Russian-led pan-Slavic federation. Although cultural characteristics, movement became polit...

At the last decades of long 19th century, a prominent Russian Muslim journalist and educator, Ismail Gasprinskii (1851–1914), promoted cultural-political project for Muslims, which after Revolution 1905 gradually shifted to idea national-cultural autonomy within empire, some Gasprinskii’s ideas were reinterpreted he personally became known as pan-Turkist, especially in USSR Turkey. This case st...

Abstract: The current civilizational crisis of ideology makes peoples join their efforts in search for adequate responses to the challenges time. modern modeling new state and legal forms unity uses abstraction, analysis synthesis, as well specific historical comparative approaches. Observation political processes it possible hypothesize on transformations states. present article features vario...

the russian foreign policy toward various issues is often combined with complexity, ambiguity and conflicts. this fact was true at least in the history of relations between iran and russia, so that russian face is depicted as an unreliable partner for the iranian citizens and elites. with the importance of this issue, the study aims to answer this central question: what are the reasons for thes...

There should be three periods in the activity of Myhaylo Czajkowski on Balkan Peninsula. The first is time when led Oriental mission Hotel Lambert Istanbul. Concept South Slavic Federation, created by Adam Czartoryski, included liberalization policy Ottoman Empire relation to Christian population, and promotion Uniate movement among Orthodox. second period before immediately after Crimean War, ...