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Subethnoses are a threat to the superethnos. Models of taming regional minorities in the Russian Federation
The aim of the article is to expand knowledge about regional minorities in the Russian Federation. The subject of interest will be the characteristics of Cossacks, Pomors and Siberians as a potential threat to state security. The work will discuss models of taming these minorities, which should be understood as forcing them to obey, a type of active ethnic policy, as a result of which the sense of distinctiveness is limited to the cultural dimension, omitting the socio‑political aspect. Models of taming through division, taming through securitization and taming through identity disruption have been distinguished.

Artykuł poświęcony został inspirowanej przez jeden z subetnosów narodu rosyjskiego korporacji siłowej – zarejestrowanym organizacjom kozackim. Celem pracy było ukazanie ich miejsca w systemie bezpieczeństwa narodowego Federacji Rosyjskiej. Postawiono i pozytywnie zweryfikowano hipotezę, że Kozacy rejestrowi stanowią istotny element dopełniający niewydolny system. Uwagę skoncentrowano na systemie bezpieczeństwa militarnego oraz systemie bezpieczeństwa i porządku publicznego, choć ukazano również obecność problemu w kontekście innych podsystemów rosyjskiego systemu bezpieczeństwa narodowego.

A subethnos corporation inspired. Registered Cossacks in the national security system of the Russian Federation

The article was devoted to the power corporation, the registered Cossack organizations, inspired by one of the subethnos of the Russian nation. The aim of the study was to show their place in the national security system of the Russian Federation. A hypothesis was put forward and positively verified that registry Cossacks constitute an important element complementing the ineffective system. The attention was focused on the military security system and the security and public order system, although the problem was also shown in the context of other subsystems of the Russian national security system.

The issue of the autocephaly of Ukrainian Orthodoxy has once again demonstrated that the concept of atheism and the fight against religion propagated by the communists did not bring the expected results. On the contrary, religion has become a factor that connects societies in the republics of the former USSR with the former metropolis, especially for Slavic and Orthodox populations. It should not come as a surprise, therefore, that the problem of the autocephaly of Ukrainian Orthodoxy has been exploited in the current Russian-Ukrainian dispute, described as a post-imperial hybrid war. The aim of this article is to show how both sides of the conflict are using the issue of the autocephaly of Ukrainian Orthodoxy.

Priests of various faiths have tried to accompany Ukrainian soldiers as military chaplains since the very beginning of the fighting in eastern Ukraine. Finally, the Ukrainian parliament regularized the status of the military chaplaincy adopting a relevant law. Analyzing the process of shaping the chaplaincy allows us to better understand the place of religious communities and religion itself in the social life of post-Soviet Ukraine. It also allows for an examination of the nation-building process from a different and very interesting perspective. The article consists of three parts. The first one briefly presents the process of institutionalizing the military service of priests in Ukraine. In the next part, the significance of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's (UGCC) special activity in the field of military chaplaincy is demonstrated. The third part attempts to explain the reasons why the UGCC, despite a number of objective limitations, plays the leading role in the sphere of chaplaincy in Ukraine.