The role of Eurasian geopolitical philosophy for Kremlin’s propaganda before the war in Ukraine

Анотація

Before the war in Ukraine that started on Feb. 24th, 2022, the Eurasian geopolitical philosophy, so popular among scholars as well as propagandists in Russia, was not in the discourse of the analyses in European Union. Before the war started, «Western» European politicians, also those in the Baltic States and Poland, did not pay much attention to the philosophical substantiation of why Kremlin claims Ukraine as its territory and culture. Philosophical substantiation on the basis of Eurasian geopolitical ideas were disregarded as inside Russian political «talks», however, some of those ideas were noticed after V. Putin’s attempt to justify the occupation of Ukraine.