Religious Policy in De Facto States of Caucasus - Abkhazia and South Ossetia

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Religious Policy in De Facto States of Caucasus - Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Original language description

Abkhazia and South Ossetia represent specific cases of disintegration of the Soviet empire. Owing to an extensive support of Russia, they managed to effectively separate from Georgia and to get formal recognition of their independence from Russia Yet, animportant role is also played by the so-called soft power, in particular the concept of Russian World Foundation and the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. In Abkhazia and South Ossetia, an interesting situation has arisen. Both of these separatist republics are under direct control of Russia. Nonetheless, what is surprising is the position of the Russian Orthodox Church, which in other countries unreservedly supports Russian power politics. In Abkhazia and South Ossetia it rejects to break theboundaries of its ecclesiastical jurisdiction and it has refused the admission of Orthodox believers under ROC, explaining that even after the political separation local Orthodox believers belonged under the jurisdiction of the Georgian O

Czech name

Religious Policy in De Facto States of Caucasus - Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Czech description

Abkhazia and South Ossetia represent specific cases of disintegration of the Soviet empire. Owing to an extensive support of Russia, they managed to effectively separate from Georgia and to get formal recognition of their independence from Russia Yet, animportant role is also played by the so-called soft power, in particular the concept of Russian World Foundation and the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. In Abkhazia and South Ossetia, an interesting situation has arisen. Both of these separatist republics are under direct control of Russia. Nonetheless, what is surprising is the position of the Russian Orthodox Church, which in other countries unreservedly supports Russian power politics. In Abkhazia and South Ossetia it rejects to break theboundaries of its ecclesiastical jurisdiction and it has refused the admission of Orthodox believers under ROC, explaining that even after the political separation local Orthodox believers belonged under the jurisdiction of the Georgian O

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Political Sciences, Law, Finance, Economics and Tourism, Conference Proceedings, Volume 1

ISBN

978-619-7105-46-9

ISSN

2367-5659

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

291-298

Publisher name

SGEM 2015

Place of publication

Sofia, Bulgaria

Event location

Albena, Bulgaria

Event date

Aug 26, 2015

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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