“The Fate of Mankind Is Again Closely Intertwined with the Fate of Russia” (original) (raw)

The Image of the Future of Contemporary Russia

Journal of Futures studies, 2019

The paper analyzes the images of the future of Russia, which exist in the conscience of representatives of the modern Russian society. We have developed a comprehensive humanitarian analysis (CHA), which allows us to find a common denominator of social expectations in sources of different types. We introduce into scientific research such groups of sources as scientific forecasts, government and political programs, opinion polls and works of modern Russian literature. The results of our study include a description of the image of the future, which we have designated as "its own way" and two options of this way.

Russian Perspective on Eurasia in a Changing World Order

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The world at large is on the edge very complex and complicated world with new understanding of ideologies, new version of foreign or external affairs of different partners. This is a New World. For Russia, as well as for India, or for China necessary to understand and even accept that each of them is not only one or main actor in Eurasia. Perhaps it holds true for other countries all around the World, even for the United States whose field of the interests is the whole world or for Britain. New players arise and old ones long for a new fair relations.The crisis spreads on different levels - local, bilateral, regional, global - acting as a factor in the next stage of turbulence of international relations and world politics. At the same time, for the XXI century it is the longest period of strict confrontation, affecting the basics and principles of post-bipolar world order. There is the option that the future of Eurasia will be determined by the new configuration of the world order a...

Russia and the West: A 25-Year Forecast

Since its emergence as an organized state, Russia has collided with the West. For over a millennium, the two have clashed economically, politically and militarily, using the countries that form the buffer between them as a staging ground for their rivalry. With Ukraine's Euromaidan uprising and Russia's subsequent annexation of Crimea in March 2014, the long-standing conflict has been renewed. But just as the end of the Cold War did not resolve hostilities between Russia and the West, neither will a resolution to the Ukrainian crisis erase the fundamental imperatives that have pitted the two against each other for more than a thousand years.