THE PROTECTION OF THE SLAVIC WORLD AS A POLITICAL AND LEGAL CONCEPT OF RUSSIAN CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY: THE RETURN OF THE GEOPOLITICAL PRINCIPLE
- Authors: Baburin S.N1,2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Witte Moscow University
- Issue: No 11 (2025)
- Pages: 75-83
- Section: Philosophy of law
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1026-9452/article/view/355666
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034543X25110049
- ID: 355666
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Abstract
Through the prism of legal historiography, the issues of civilizational development of Russia are considered. The thesis is argued that the protection of the Slavic world is a political and legal concept of Russian civilizational identity. It is substantiated that the civilizational identity of any nation in its value is not accidentally equated with sovereignty and is the key to stable development, no solution to the current and future problems of the state and legal development of Russia without taking into account its civilizational identity is simply impossible. It is argued that the Russian civilizational identity includes, among other things, a nationwide inner feeling that all Slavs are friends for the Russian person not only by a single ethnic root, but also by the mood of the soul, the system of spiritual and moral values, that Slavic reciprocity is incompatible with the moral neutrality of society and power. The Slavic world occupies a particularly significant place in the Russian traditional legal consciousness.
About the authors
S. N Baburin
Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Witte Moscow University
Author for correspondence.
Email: 1357343@mail.ru
Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic, foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia, Chief Researcher; Professor Moscow, Russia; Moscow, Russia
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