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Geopolitics isthe geographical consciousness of the State». The State is a community of men in a defined space, even a civilization with clear borders; in this case we can speak of a “State-civilization” – to use Weiwei Zhang’s concept – like China, or to a certain extent, Russia. For the German geopolitical scientist Karl Haushofer (1869-1946), geopolitics is neither right nor left, but aims to serve all of humanity by promoting understanding between peoples. Haushofer's object of study are "great vital connections of today's man in today's space» and its purpose is “the insertion of the individual into his natural environment and the coordination of phenomena linking the State to space».

North Korea is a beautiful thing. Interestingly, the Korean word 'Juche' (주체) is a deeply philosophical term and means 'subject' or even the Heideggerian Dasein. It has everything else included in it: independence, freedom, civil sovereignty.

"BRICS is a dialogue of cultures," while the West is still outside BRICS because it insists that there are no cultures and civilizations other than the Western one, Russian philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin said at SPIEF-2024.

On February 24, 2022, Russia was forced to launch a special military operation (SMO) to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. The SMO had not only geopolitical, military and ethical prerequisites. In order to understand the significance of the SMO, it should be viewed in the larger context of Russian culture, Russian history, and Russian philosophy, which has its own tradition of reflection on war.