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This presentation explores the concept of evil in right-wing populism and the ideology of the Russian World (russkii mir) ideology. At face value, right-wing ideology and the russkii mir ideology may seem very different. They currently have different expressions in Ukraine, especially as the idea of the Russian World is used to window-dress Putin’s geo-political aggression. At the root, however, right-wing populism and the Russian World ideology share something that is deeply problematic: namely, that these ideologies equate the other with evil.

The title of this presentation is Equating the Other with Evil: What Russkii Mir and Right-Wing Populism Have in Common

Marietta van der Tol is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Her research interests include the relationship between religion, politics and society.

This lecture was given at the Summer School of Theology 2022 "Theology of the Other under Pressure of the Empire"
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Presented by Eastern European Institute of Theology https://eeit-edu.info with the financial support of Dnipro Hope Mission and ScholarLeaders International.

Video editing: Nazar Sharak

Текст лекції українською мовою опублікований в журналі "Богословські роздуми" Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022) http://reflections.eeit-edu.info/issue/view/16281

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