... other—positive—foundations for their identity and stop pitting themselves against their stronger neighbours. Building one’s identity on the basis of negation is always detrimental and counterproductive. Incidentally, this would also be true of Russia’s attempts to build its identity on the basis that it is not part of Europe.
Everything mentioned before suggests that the immediate goal in both conflict-chains is not to “solve” the problems dividing India and Pakistan as well as Russia and Ukraine once and for all—this ...
... the Russian Federation. RIAC experts Igor Okunev, Oleg Shakirov, and Konstantin Pakhalyuk took part in the forum as speakers, and Ivan Bocharov, RIAC Program Assistant, joined the event as a participant.
The aim of the forum was to strengthen the all-Russian identity, harmonize interethnic relations, and consolidate harmoniously developed, socially responsible and proactive youth. In particular, the discussions focused on the need to address the internationalization of Russian higher education in the context ...
RIAC continues its interview series with prominent Russian writers. Nikolay Markotkin, the Council’s Media and Government Relations Manager, talks to Evgeny Chizhov about his novel “Translated from Word-for-Word Translation,” the specifics of the Russian identity, and the problems of promoting Russian literature abroad.
In a recent interview for our website, Vladimir Medvedev referred to you as an exception — the only author of novels based on the theme of Central Asia who is not biographically related ...
