CULTURAL FACTOR IN SUBSTANTIATING RUSSIA'S POLITICAL PRIORITIES IN EUROASIAN GEOPOLITICAL SPACE: HISTORY AND PRESENT

Abstract

The article considers the cultural component of
the Euroasian concept of cooperation on the post-Soviet territory.
The author pays attention to the revival of interest in
ideas of culture within the framework of the classical doctrine
of evrazijstvo created in the environment of Russian emigration
in the 20th century. Having conducted comparative
research of the modern and classical doctrine evrazijstvo
the author has come to the conclusion that it is by means
of difficult culturological interpretation that political and public
figures tried in the past and are trying nowadays to solve
quite concrete geopolitical problems of revival of the so-called
Russia-Eurasia area. In the given aspect culture presents
itself a strong base launched by centuries on which Russia
should build cooperation on the post-Soviet territory of the
Eurasian region. Nowadays there are two aspects making
Russia the central element of the region: its historical geopolitical
mission and the Russian language.