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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 Philosophical Sobor “The Great Russian Rectification of Names“, the purpose of which was to develop a holistic interpretation of the SMO, to comprehend the moral meaning and historical significance of the special operation on demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to apply historiosophical and metaphysical optics to this event, to place it within a macronarrative, in which the meaning of the event will become clear from the point of view of eternity. The name of the Sobor refers to the ancient Confucian reform of “rectifying names,“ the purpose of which was to bring things in line with what they should be. Since the normal order of things, names, language has been violated in Ukraine in the last decades (persecution on national and religious grounds, linguistic suppression, etc.), and Ukraine itself has become a laboratory of Western globalism, Russia's goal is to return Ukraine to the origins of its statehood, to cure the virus of Nazism, i.e., to restore the normal order of things. However, this is not the goal of Russia alone and not only in the course of the SMO; it is the goal of all humanity and therefore of all those countries that today oppose Western globalism. It is safe to say that the character of the SMO is not only a military one, but also a philosophical one: it is a conflict of ideas. And in the new world conflict, this is one of the main battlefields. The collection of selected papers “The Great Russian Rectification of Names“ is aimed at helping to form a holistic understanding of the world conflict unfolding before our eyes, to reveal its essence and, most importantly, to point the way to our common, one–for-all Victory. It will be the Victory of human civilization over the Western project of the post-human future. This collection is intended not only for philosophers and intellectuals in the broadest sense, but above all for all those who have set out on the path of protecting their countries, their native cultures, and universal values. As well as for all those who are now on the frontlines with weapons in their hands, defending their values, fighting on the frontlines of information and ideological warfare. The front is everywhere and the rear is nowhere in the contemporary wars. The war has become total. And it requires total mobilization. First and foremost, total intellectual mobilization. We are sure that such mobilization will be facilitated by the collection of selected papers entitled “The Great Russian Rectification of Names“. This collection is dedicated to the daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, Daria Dugina, who was killed by Ukrainian terrorists, who became a symbol of the ideological struggle for truly human values against world globalism with its project of an anti-human civilization. Speakers: 1. Aleksandr Dugin (Moscow) 2 Nikolay Arutyunov (Saint-Petersburg. Russia) - Ideological concept “Meeting in a new place“ 3. Sophia Polyankina (Novosibirsk, Russia) - The Translator as an Adjutant in the Battlefield of Ideas 4. Syed Almas Haider Shah (Islamabad, Pakistan) - Civilizational States and Pluralistic Structures of Multipolar World Order 5. Stevan Gajić (Belgrade, Serbia) - Colonial approach of the West on Serbian space - the example of the Srebrenica resolution 6. Amal S. Wahdan (Al-Bireh, Occupied Palestine) - Western globalism’s attacks on national cultures 7. Jamal Wakim (Beirut, Lebanon) - How the United States used Takfiri move and Islamopobia for its own geopolitical objectives? 8. Olga Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Saint-Petersburg. Russia) - A Man on the Frontier of Tradition 9. Lucas Leiroz (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Understanding the Roots of Ukrainian Nazism and Its Role in Western Geopolitics (VIDEO) 10. Alexander Markovics (Vienna, Austria) - The great Russian rectification of names – a call to action for the European opposition to Globalism 11. Lorenzo Pacini (Italy) - Rectifying the concept of community: a political opportunity?
