Santeri Kytöneva1; 1 University of Helsinki, Finland
Discussion
The presentation maps out parts of the controlled Russian ideological landscape in the context of Russian church-military relations. The analysis seeks to clarify how certain ideas and thinkers are leveraged to promote increasingly militant perspectives. This includes the instrumental use of specific concepts, such as the notion of Russia as the Katechon, and the appropriation of philosophical figures like Ivan Ilyin. The presentation looks for explanations in the wider background of deepening church-military relations in Russia and examines the role of individual actors as ideological entrepreneurs.
