III ALL-UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE “SOCIOCULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN UKRAINE IN THE XX-XXI CENTURIES. OVERCOMING THE SOVIET HERITAGE IN EDUCATION, CULTURE, MENTALITY”

On February 14, 2024, the 3rd All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “Sociocultural Transformations in Ukraine in the XX-XXI Centuries. Overcoming the Soviet Heritage in Education, Culture, Mentality” was held at Hryhorii Skovoroda University in Pereiaslav.

The co-organizer of the scientific event was the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine. Employees of the Institute took part in the conference. At the plenary session, the Head of the Department of Political Culture and Ideology, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Yuriy Nikolaiets, gave a speech “War in the value system of modern Russian society”, and a speech “Resistance of Ukrainian society to the expansion of the ideology of regional separatism and “Russian world”” was given by the Chief scientist employee of the Department of Ethnopolitics, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Oleg Kalakura. Valeriy Novorodovsky, a Junior Researcher at the Department of Ethnopolitics, Candidate of Historical Sciences, took an active part in the discussion.

Yuriy Nikolaiets and Oleg Kalakura

Valeriy Novorodovsky

Most of the participants of the Conference emphasized that the main goal of imperial Russian policy is the genocide of the Ukrainian people and the destruction of Ukraine as a sovereign state. Russia’s special informational and psychological operations are aimed at combating historical memory and historical heritage and are aimed at destroying the unity of Ukrainian society and erasing Ukrainian identity. To achieve its goals, Moscow, with the help of committed specialists in historiography and historiosophy, imposes a set of Russian national myths on historical science.

Overcoming the Soviet heritage in education, culture, and mentality, the participants of the Conference emphasized, is possible only if the efforts of state authorities, scientists, educators and public initiative are combined.

Participants of the Conference in Pereiaslav