The philosophical sobor «The great Russian rectification of names»

The conference for online participation was held May 24. On February 24, 2022, Russia was forced to launch a special military operation (SMO) to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. The SMO had not only geopolitical, military and ethical prerequisites. In order to understand the significance of the SMO, it should be viewed in the larger context of Russian culture, Russian history, and Russian philosophy, which has its own tradition of reflection on war. There is an ideological dimension to the SMO as well. This is at least confirmed by the fact that this event has received directly opposite reactions from intellectuals around the world: from wholehearted support to fanatical denial. Such ambivalent assessments and interpretations of the SMO point to the obvious fact that the SMO inherently has ideological foundations that need to be comprehended and find its textual embodiment by the professional philosophical community. It is for this purpose that Russian philosophers in 2022 held sessions of the