The End of Russian Hegemony in the Post-Soviet Space? War in Ukraine and Disintegration Processes in Eurasia

Abstract

The article examines the disintegration processes that are a consequence of the collapse of the Russian hegemonic order in the post-Soviet space. Russia’s disagreement with the established system of international order and US hegemony was one of the reasons for Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On the one hand, the invasion in Ukraine is Russia’s attempt to hold on to the hegemonic order and to form a geopolitical bloc with potential allies, including China, Iran and India, which also oppose the global hegemony of the United States. On the other, the invasion in Ukraine is a redefinition of its own geopolitical ambitions, which Russia uses to constitute an alternative hegemonic order of the global level.

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Notes

1 In 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine ‘Pro zabezpechennia funktsionuvannia ukrainskoi movy yak derzhavnoi’, available at: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2704-19#Text, accessed 19 February 2024.

2 In 2017, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed the decree ‘O perevode alfavita kazahskogo yazyka s kirillitsy na latinskuyu grafiku’, available at: https://goo.su/x2AmmB, accessed 19 February 2024.

3 ‘Putin’s Address to Russia’s Parliament’, Reuters, 21 February, available at: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putins-address-russias-parliament-2023-02-21/, accessed 10 February 2024.

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Ruslan Zaporozhchenko

Ruslan Zaporozhchenko, Department of Political Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Svobody Sq. 4, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Region 61022, Ukraine. Email: [email protected]