ЕТНОКУЛЬТУРНА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ РОСІЙСЬКОЇ ДІАСПОРИ ЯК «ПАРАСОЛЯ» ДЛЯ ПРОСУВАННЯ ПОЛІТИЧНИХ ІНТЕРЕСІВ РФ ТА ВНУТРІШНЯ ЗАГРОЗА В УКРАЇНІ

Abstract

The ethnocultural activity of the Russian diaspora in Ukraine is analyzed in this article. The analysis shows that the political component is decisive in the activities of most pro-Russian NGOs and some members of the Russian diaspora in Ukraine. It was found that the ethnocultural activity of the numerous Russian diaspora organizations created in Ukraine by the Russian authorities, declared in normative legal documents, actually serves as a kind of "umbrella" to cover their political work among the general Ukrainian community. At the same time, their "ethnoculturalism" is filled with the ideology of Russian chauvinism, great power and anti-Ukrainianism. Given the crisis, which covered all spheres of Russian public life and lost its total influence on Ukraine, and, consequently, the possibility of restoring the neo-empire, the ruling elite of the Kremlin has high hopes for the so-called soft power - the large Russian diaspora in Ukraine. The activities of "professional Russians" serve as an official cover not only for their own funding, but also for many other Russian-language cultural and educational institutions in all regions of Ukraine. One of the "significant results" of the so-called ethnocultural activities of Russian diaspora organizations in Ukraine have been and continue to be their active support for the occupation of Crimea in 2014 and military aggression in ORDLO, processing the mass consciousness of the population, especially south and east of Ukraine on the alleged deployment of civil conflict in the country on Eastern Ukraine. The idea of Crimea as "originally Russian territory" is also being actively planted. These Pyrrhic victories are a clear indication of Russia's imperial encroachments on the territory of neighboring states. However, they are doomed to inevitable defeat in pursuing a decisive and sensible policy on the part of the Ukrainian state and the country's civil society, as well as the politicized ethnocultural activities of the Russian diaspora in Ukraine.