Le monde russe : un concept et son évolution

The Russian World : a concept and its evolution. Created in the 1990 ’ s after the fall of the Soviet Union , the concept of the Russian World entered into the Russian political life during the 2000’s . The concept includes the notions of «compatriots living abroad », Russian language and culture, orthodoxy and idea of a «common civilizational area » which implies a «common history » or a «common culture ». The concept seems to respond to the political will of influence in the post­Soviet area, establishing an effective soft power policy . In our study , we intend to analyze the components of the Russian World as one of the Russian soft power forms in the 2000’s. Then, the goal of this study is to show the evolution of the concept during the Ukrainian crisis, when it had been instrumentalized by the government in order to achieve political aims and to justify its policies in Ukraine.Smirnou Yauheni. Le monde russe : un concept et son évolution. In: Revue Russe n°46, 2016. Présences russes dans le monde du XXIe siècle. Sous la direction de Emilia Koustova et Evelyne Enderlein. pp. 29-38