Stability of the Russian Expansionist Ideology: a Global Comparative Dimension

The article analyzes the factors that led to the fall of colonial regimes in the world leading countries of the world in different historical periods and in this context clarifies the reasons for the preservation of aggressive features pertaining to the current foreign policy of the Russian Federation. The aim of the article is to identify the reasons for the stability of the Russian expansionist ideology by means of historical and comparative analyses. The dynamic development of the system of international relations at different stages of historical development has proved the inviability of large colonial empires and the incompliance of expansionist means of implementing the geopolitical course of a state to the values of a civilized world. However, the Russian Federation continues to resort to them more actively, getting successfully adapted to emerging world realities and doing harm at the same time to the national interests of a number of independent states, including Ukraine. On analyzing the processes of the fall of colonial empires in England, Spain and Portugal, France and Japan, as well as the decline of expansion provide by the United States, the research proves that the occurrence of these events was caused by objective factors of development of a number of states and their inconsistency at the same time with the tendencies of further democratic and economic development. It has as well been proved by the author that all the tendencies of economic or political modernization, which are favorable for all other countries of the world, do not agree with the guarantees of an unhindered development provided by the Russian Federation nowadays. Particular attention has been paid to the historical origins of the “Russian world (“Russkii mir”)” ideology, its relationship with the ancient Roman concept of “Pax Romana”. There are some additional arguments presented in the research that prove the artificiality of the basic postulates of state Russia’s ideology.