How Putin Created the Russian National State
Anatoly Karlin • September 28, 2021 In addition to affirming
the rights of Russian compatriots abroad,
Russia’s historical belief in God,
and the family as a union of woman and man,
the amended Constitution also alluded to
the thousand-year legacy of Russian statehood, thereby asserting
cultural continuity with the Russian Empire and explicitly
rejecting the joint Soviet-Western “noviop” vision of the Russian Federation as just a historyless shard of the Soviet Union.
Consequently, the Constitutional amendment became the base to what has become a comprehensive embrace of the mainstream Russian nationalist program.
In April 2017, I had defined its three key principles as follows:
- The cessation of political prosecutions for “hate speech” under Article 282.
- An end to mass immigration from Central Asia.
- The regathering of the Russian lands, including Belorussia, North Kazakhstan, Novorossiya, and Malorossiya.
All of them have essentially been fulfilled.
