The Kremlin campaign on "Russification" of Ukraine led to the "crisis of identity" within the Russian Federation - ISW

The article mentions the publications of the commander of the Russian battalion "Vostok" Alexander Khodakovsky, in which he reflects on what means to be "Russian". He writes about a split in Russian national identity, which was caused by propaganda aimed at justifying the war in Ukraine and mobilization. Khodakovsky stated that, in his opinion, the population, devoid of holistic identity, can easily destroy itself from the inside.

According to American analysts, Khodakovsky's reflections give an idea of ​​some socio -cultural consequences of persecution by Russia of ideological goals in the war in Ukraine. Analysts believe that the war has narrowed the idea of ​​what means to be a Russian, because the determination of identity is increasingly given by "hypernational and voice voices", which enhance the Kremlin's ideological line.

According to the authors of the article, previously Russian identity was significantly determined by linguistic and culturally, which was enshrined in the concepts of "compatriots abroad" and "Russian world". However, during the war, Russian identity narrowed to "Russian ethno -nationalism.

" "The purposeful campaign of Russia on" Russification "of Ukraine by invasion has caused obvious social consequences within Russia itself, especially aimed at ethnic minorities and communities of migrants, which, although paradoxically, were forced by the Russian government to take the main burden wars, "the report reads.

We will remind, on September 29 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma a bill on denunciation of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities. The Convention, which is intended to denounce in the State Duma, in particular, prohibits the assimilation of national minorities, contrary to their will and discrimination against national minorities.