Ukraine

Inclusion of “language”: what should we do with the language “Ukraine”?

Inclusion of “language”:  what should we do with the language “Ukraine”?
09.09.2022

I wanted to write this article immediately after Darya Dugina's lecture on the “Metaphysics of the Border”, to discuss with her the question of her attitude toward the principle of “taking away the language”: the possibility and necessity of appropriating the Ukrainian language during the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Darya, in a lecture at the ESM camp, spoke from imperial positions: the Ukrainian language should not be neglected, not excluded, but included in an imperial context. I immediately had a number of thoughts, but we could not discuss the topic in detail. A terrorist act ended Darya's life. However, this issue has recently been discussed again. Therefore, it makes sense to talk about the “mova” [1] and what we “take away” in it.

Geopolitical significance of the Battle of Molodi and the Special Military Operation

04.08.2022

In the days from 9 July to 2 August 2022, the 450th anniversary of the victory of the Russian army in the battle of Molodi occurs. In its meaning, this battle is comparable to the battle for Moscow in the Great Patriotic War. At least that's how the greatest contemporary specialist of the Russian Middle Ages, the historian Dmitry Volodikhin, considers it. As in 1941, in 1572 the very existence and geopolitical future of the Russian state was at stake. Now in the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, the stakes are just as high.