Category: Interview
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The church under fire: why post-Soviet governments pressure religion
Political scientist and founder of the SIKHA foundation research institute, Archil Sikharulidze (A.S.), during a press conference at the Multimedia Press Center of Sputnik Georgia (S.G.) on June 30, 2025, explained why religious institutions have become targets of systemic attacks and what similarities can be observed across different post-Soviet countries. The discussion concerns not only…
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Interview with Professor Bill Bowring: Russia and the West
by Archil Sikharulidze This is an earlier unpublished interview recorded in 2018. Interviewee: Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, University of London. Can we say that Russia has a state ideology? If so, what forms modern Russian state? Can you single out thinkers, or traditions that shape political-cultural identity of the state? In my view the…