Abstract
The purpose of this research is a comparative description of the visual features of the national flags of Russia and Albania as symbols of diffusion of macroidentity, which is expressed in the contradictory vectors of their foreign policy and focus on both European and Asian macroidentity. Based on color semantics, the article analyzes the state flags of Russia and Albania, which, as in state symbols, reveal the features of the geopolitical positioning of states. The connection between the axial symbol of identity – the double-headed eagle – and the bifurcation (diffuseness) of political macroidentity is shown. The features common to the two states are shown: a tendency toward geopolitical isolationism, authoritarian state power, the dependence of the institution of the church on the state and statist atheism, the prevalence of corrupt practices, the emphasis on forced modernization and extraordinary technologies for overcoming situations of foreign political challenges. It is stated that in both countries there is a corruption of power, a sign of which is a fierce struggle for power during most of Byzantine history. It was determined that this struggle was not waged by political methods, but by force – a military coup, uprising or assassination of the current head of state. In the geopolitical position of Albania, this was due to Skannerberg’s attempt to combine two in one: Islamic and Orthodox identities, as well as situational adaptation of the country’s political elite to the next occupier: from 1443, i.e. the years of struggle against Turkish rule and until 1944 the coat of arms acquired alternately Turkish, Austrian, Greek, Italian and Soviet-Russian details. The coat of arms of the Russian Federation also contains Byzantine elements, which indicates a spiritual succession with the Byzantine Empire, however, with less borrowing.
Highlights
The problem of a comparative analysis of the state symbols of Russia and Albania as countries with common features of macroidentity is one of the most important subjects of research both in political history and in comparative political science
A tendency to use technologies of militarist-oriented propaganda, as well as reception of the political culture of countries in whose orbit they were or were previously cultural hegemons. It is this aspect of the influence of Byzantine macroidentity on both Russia and Albania that is presented in their state symbols and is the subject of research in the article
The state symbolism and macroidentity of Russia and Albania was studied in monographs and scientific articles on heraldry, political history, coloristic semantics
Summary
The problem of a comparative analysis of the state symbols of Russia and Albania as countries with common features of macroidentity is one of the most important subjects of research both in political history and in comparative political science. The last Byzantine dynasty of the Paleologists, which managed to return Constantinople and restore the Empire for a short time, already used the image of double-headed eagles as its own dynastic symbol This continued until the fall of Byzantium as a state – until 1453, when Constantinople fell under the blows of the Ottoman conquerors, and the last Emperor Constantine XI died, defending his legacy. The eagle’s bifurcation corresponds to Albanian defense militarism in the macro-identity of the state, which is combined with the uncertainty and precariousness of power (in most cases, a two-headed eagle as an image gives the power perception of itself as unstable, shaky, uncertain and forked-split) This does not prevent Albanians from displaying militaristic aggression against ethnic groups that do not have pronounced expansionist inclinations
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