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Crimea should become a model subject of the Russian Federation. This is a political task.
This means that the instruments our financial technocrats love so much should not be ap-
plied here.
Anatoly Filatov
, Deputy Director, Ukrainian
Branch of the Institute of the CIS Countries (Sim-
feropol)
OUR STUDIES of the social and historical process
confirm that the cultural-civilizational centers of an-
tiquity developed into geopolitical centers, as we
know them today, under pressure of cultural-civi-
lizational determinants. In other words, the most de-
veloped cultural centers which appeared in the course of human history created advanced
civilizations. The cultural-civilizational centers of Ancient Egypt, Ancient India, Ancient
China, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, and Rome dominated in the geopolitical
space of their corresponding regions as centers of geopolitical impact.
This trend extended into later ages and is still going on. The European cultural-civilizational
center which had taken shape in the mid-second millennium and reached its highest point
by the end of the last millennium created a seat of geopolitical influence represented, in
turn, by Spain, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, and the U.S.
The cultural-civilizational centers are created by sociocultural systems which include the
entire range of social activity of a society living in and developing a certain global natural-
geographic space.
None of the key spheres of any sociocultural space and a socium as a system can be de-
scribed as dominating and as the only force behind social movements and geopolitical
processes since each of them contributes to sociocultural changes.
In the process of moving to its authentic civilizational model Russia passed through several
stages at which civilizational models of reproduction and implantation were used.
Baptism of Rus late in the tenth century was not so much a new religion but implantation
into Russian sociocultural space of values and standards of Byzantine civilization and their
reproduction.
This means that reunification of 2014 is a cultural and civilizational event; political means
were used to address the past and present problems of historic importance. This makes
Crimea one of the main meanings and signs of Russia's sociocultural tradition, civilizational
progress, its specificity and continuity of its history.