Viktor BUDKIN

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Viktor Budkin, D.Sc. (Econ.), professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine, chief researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine).

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THE STATE AND RELIGION IN THE POST-SOVIET EXPANSE

ABSTRACT

The author looks at the common and specific features of the relations between the state and religion in the CIS countries. He offers his opinion on the religious situation in Russia and the other post-Soviet countries in the European part of the former Soviet Union, as well as in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and describes how religion is used for political purposes.

Introduction

The early post-Soviet period can be described as a period of avid interest in religion in the post-Soviet expanse. The political forces that came to power in the newly independent states proved unable to create a pluralist ideological basis typical of Western democracies. Indeed, in the absence of a civil society and the obvious desire to leave the Soviet ideological constructs behind, the dualist orientation toward revived traditionalism and…………..

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