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In our work we landscape in the region of Berlin-Brandenburg and as an are committed to the rules of academic best practice, as de equal partner in national and international research on the fined by the German Research Foundation (GRF), the Leibniz region of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Association, and other research and re search support or Asia. [...] They also analyse, among other issues, the dynamics of social and political movements, the relations between state institutions and societal actors, local decision-making processes, values discourses at the interaction of religion, society and politics, memory and the politics of memory as well as the role of language and literature for cultural and political identities. [...] the fall of the Soviet Union, accompanied by shifts in the ROC’s stance on social The project’s starting point is the ob Secondly, the dynamics of the ROC’s so and ethical issues. [...] From a social The purpose of the research project is to discourse about social welfare – has ethics perspective, an orientation to conduct a systematic analysis of the dy changed dramatically since the collapse wards the society in which the ROC is namics of the ROC’s social and ethical of the Soviet Union. [...] The com logical and socio-ethical implications, parative analysis of Russia and Ukraine illustrates the relevance of the social planned and organised by Regina Elsner, environment in the development of the Church’s self-image.