EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND RUSSIA: CREATING THE IMAGE OF THE ENEMY. A VIEW FROM ITALY

Author(s): Carla Rampino

Rubric: Specific issues of law and law enforcement

DOI: 10.21777/2587-9472-2025-2-88-92

Release: 2025-2 (46)

Pages: 88-92

Keywords: Russia, West, democratic state, sovereignty, state power, freedom, principle of nationality, war

Annotation: This article analyzes the international legal problems of sanctions imposed by European states against Russia fr om the standpoint of democratic principles of modern states and sovereignty of states, and offers a critical view of Western anti-Russian propaganda justifying sanctions. The article concludes that the West's "demoniza- tion" of Russia is based not on actions that significantly distinguish it from the rest of the world, but on the need inherent in state systems to create an enemy in order to assert their superiority. The object of criticism is those Western propagandas that, based on immoral manipulative dynamics, cope well with constructing an enemy only because they are disguised as a convincing, at least outwardly, ideological goal based on democratic principles. In reality, such mechanisms conceal strategies for the struggle for power in violation of the basic principles and norms of international law, going far beyond the territory wh ere wars are being waged, that is, into geopolitical games with economic and geographical interests on a much larger scale. Throughout the text of the article, the Russian Federation is abbreviated as RF.

Bibliography: Carla RA. EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY AND RUSSIA: CREATING THE IMAGE OF THE ENEMY. A VIEW FROM ITALY // Journal of Legal Sciences. – 2025. – № 2 (46). – С. 88-92. doi: 10.21777/2587-9472-2025-2-88-92