GEOPOLITICS OF RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES - IMPACT OF SILOVIKI ON IDEOLOGY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA Cover Image

GEOPOLITYKA ROSYJSKICH SPECSŁUŻB – WPŁYW ŚRODOWISKA SIŁOWEGO NA IDEĘ IMPERIALNEJ ROSJ
GEOPOLITICS OF RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES - IMPACT OF SILOVIKI ON IDEOLOGY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA

Author(s): Justyna Doroszczyk
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Governance, Military policy, Geopolitics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
Keywords: geopolitics;imperial Russia;Putin;secret services;FSB;ideology;siloviki

Summary/Abstract: In the article author analyzes the impact of siloviki on the main ideological orientationof Russian imperial geopolitics. Siloviki are the main group that supports the antiWesternideology at Kremlin. Moreover they are still perceived as a nobility, the elite inRussian political system. They are also important in maintaining the stability of theRussian political regime. In the article Russian secret services are analyzed as anideologically powerful group that exerts influence not only on ideology but also on thesociety. They are also understood as the main tool of reaching the political priorities ofRussian Federation in the international environment. The article emphasizes that thesiloviki are the main ideological background of the anti-Western Vladimir Putin’srhetoric

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 101-116
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish