from RT:
A nation that has buried empires now reaches for a new dream of its own
Russia stands today in a civilizational moment. After decades of ideological vacuum, we are again confronted with the central question: who are we, and where are we going?
Our Foreign Policy Concept formally recognizes what history long revealed: that Russia is not merely a nation but a civilizational state. Yet many Russians still cling to an outdated Western identity, ignoring the lesson first taught by Alexander Nevsky: that a one-sided orientation toward the West is not only naïve, but lethal for our sovereignty.
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Russia’s roots lie in the forests and steppes of the north-east. Our present and future lie across the Eurasian-Pacific world and not in the exhausted imitation of Europe, where elites decay, nor in the turbulent post-liberal America struggling to redefine itself. Our destiny is self-defined.
To fulfill this destiny, Russia needs more than power and resilience. It needs a unifying dream. Not a bureaucratic ideology, but a living national idea capable of inspiring citizens, guiding policy, and anchoring our civilization in the coming multipolar era.
Nations do not rise without dreams. From Peter the Great’s modernizing mission to the Trans-Siberian Railway, from Soviet industrialization to the victory of 1945 and the Space Age, Russia advanced through grand projects animated by a shared belief in our future.
When these ideas faded, stagnation followed. Since the end of the Soviet period, we have lived in ideological neutrality and that’s a space our adversaries were quick to fill. Liberal assumptions of the 1990s lingered, not by conviction, but by inertia. A technocratic elite managed day-to-day affairs, yet few dared to articulate a long-term vision for the nation.
