Thank you very much for your invitation to participate in this very important debate, an invitation both honorable and very interesting for me. (*) There is a tendency nowadays to examine the cultural questions and among them the question of values independently of the socio-economic, material processes and also from geopolitics. I believe it is … Continue reading The world and Russia, Russia and the world: from Perestroika to the Ukrainian conflict – Part I: Results and consequences of the Soviet collapse