Assessment of threats to Russia’s cultural sovereignty in the context of hybrid confrontation: the migration dimension

This article examines the transformation of Russia’s cultural sovereignty under the influence of migration processes. It establishes that the territorial concentration of migrants, in the absence of effective integration mechanisms, creates institutional conditions that, under external influence, may transition into a phase of direct threat. The study proposes a typology of scenarios for the transformation of cultural sovereignty, which enables the positioning of the current situation in Russia and facilitates the forecasting of its trajectory in response to varying institutional decisions.

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