"Мы все русские, а не россияне": основні світоглядні візії російської громади західноукраїнського регіону (за матеріалами газети "Русский вестник")

Abstract

Аналізуються основні світоглядні концепції російської громади Західного реґіону України, які викладені протягом 2004–2012 рр. у газетних публікаціях “Русского вестника”. Головною метою статті є розглянути ідейні концепти досліджуваної газети. Досліджені основні підходи до визначення термінів “русский”, “россиянин”, “русская земля”, “русский мир” та “русская идея”, які вживаються у статтях видання, що досліджується. Розглянена проблема бачення у газеті російської історії, сучасного стану Росії та перспектив її розвитку. У висновках наголошено на факті поширення на сторінках “Русского вестника” неоімперських ідей та міфів.

The results of the theoretical study of the main ideological concepts of the Russian community of Western Ukraine, which were set out in the newspaper articles of “The Russian newsletter” during the period from 2004 to 2012 are presented. The main aim of this article is to examine the idealogical concepts of researching newspaper. Such methods of scientific research as analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization, content analysis are applied in it. In this article both the historiography of the problem and such newspaper of the Russians of Lviv as “The Russian Newsletter” are analyzed. The main approaches for defining of notions “ethnic Russians”, “Russian citizens”, “the Russian land”, “the Russian world” and “the Russian idea” that are used in publications of investigating edition are researched. The problem of investigating newpaper’s visions of Russian history, modernity and future are also considered. It is shown that there are a lot of cultural societies which were founded by local Russian activists in Western Ukraine. The primary purposes of functioning of these organizations were supporting the mutual communication between their members as well as preserving their native ethnic identity. At the same time, it is stated that some of press of such Russian communities became peculiar fields for spreading both the pro-Russian ideological conceptions concerning problem of Russian national self-expression and the visions of Russia’s past, contemporaneity and future times. It is revealed that the portion of such information materials is dangerous for Ukrainian National Security and may be harmful for this country. In conclusion, it is emphasized that there is propagation of the neo-imperial ideas and myths on pages of “The Russian newsletter” and only strong positions of contemporary European countries can turn these thoughts which recall both the Imperial and the Soviet periods, into unrealized historiosophical declarations of the beginning of the 21st century.