MODERN CONFESSIONAL PROCESSES IN DONBASS: PRECONDITIONS, ESSENSE, TENDENCIES OF DEVELOPMENT
The article generalizes the preconditions, character, and tendencies of development of confessional processes in the territory of Donbass (Donetsk and Luhansk regions) under Russian occupation and unfolding of a humanitarian crisis in the region. It characterizes the institutional completeness of the most influential Christian confessions, the ideological orientation of their social policy; analyzes the specifics of spreading of “Russian World’s” great-power ideology in the region in its religious dimension.