ANNUAL REPORT 2023 3.  WORK WITHIN STRATEGIC AREAS AND  HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES Also, for the first time this year, we launched the- matic courses. In 2023, we held 3 different ones: I. VIACHESLAV LIKHACHOV‘S AUTHOR‘S LECTURE COURSE ‘ENEMIES OF OPEN SOCIETY’, WHICH STARTED ON 18 MAY AND INCLUDED 8 ONLINE LECTURES EVERY THURSDAY, COVERING THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: • NATIONALISM. En- communities in the post-Soviet • FASCISM. What does emy, companion, or space, and interfaith relations. this term actually mean, ally of democracy? and can the current • LEFT-WINGERS. What ІІ. MYKHAILO SAVVA‘S Russian regime be considered fascist? went wrong? Why does AUTHOR‘S COURSE the movement for equality ‘MODERN RUSSIAN • FUNDAMENTALISM. How and justice increasingly POLITICAL REGIME’, radical religious and polit- find itself on the same WHICH STARTED ON ical movements are trying side of the socio-political 27 JUNE AND INCLUDED to fight for influence in barricades as the most 7 LECTURES HELD the post-secular world. obscurantist conser- ONLINE EVERY TUESDAY vative movements? AT 6 P.M. AND COVERED • POPULISM. Right and left: THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: why it is gaining popular- ity in the last decade and Viacheslav Likhachov, • The political regime what threats it poses. the author of the course, • CONSPIRACY THE- is a member of the Expert of modern Russia: au- Council of the Center for Civil thoritarianism, fascism, ORIES. How belief in Liberties and the author of neo-totalitarianism. behind-the-scenes power over sixty scientific papers • The real system of Rus- undermines democracy. and books. He studies • ORIENTALISM. Post- ethnopolitical conflictology, sian power: can it be xenophobia in the post-Soviet called usurpation? colonial criticism space, the ideology and • Russian state ideology: and its challenges. activities of right-wing radical • ANTI-GENDER. Why movements in Russia and the ideological basis Ukraine, political extremism, of mass war crimes. has the idea of gender the theory of nation and • Ukraine in the ofÏcial equality become a trig- nationalism, the history of ger for the conserva- anti-Semitism, the history Russian state ideology: tive part of society? of the revival of Jewish why are they afraid? 29