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Abstract

On January 22-23, 2024, the School of Public Administration hosted the All-Russian conference with international participation "The Concept of Russian Civilization", organized by the Center for the Study of Russian Statehood. The conference was devoted to an extremely important issue that has acquired the rights of citizenship in our country — the concept of Russian civilization. It is connected with our centuries-old questions: who are we? where are we? where are we from? why are we here? are we East or West? are we Europe or Asia? are we Eurasia or Asiopa? The conference was held on the eve  of the 8-episode film "Civilizations" release on Channel One prepared by the team of the analytical television program "The Big Game" under the guidance of the author of these lines. And this is not a coincidence. The objective of the film was to popularize the civilizational issues, the objective of the conference was its scientific rethinking at the current stage of the Russian statehood development. Based on the materials of the conference participants' reports, we have prepared a special issue of the electronic bulletin of the School of Public Administration, which we present to our readers.