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Over recent years, Russian researchers have become more and more interested in studying ethnic and confessional issues of Russian regions and their population. Special attention is paid to three world religions – Christianity, Islam and Buddhism – that are wide-spread in the Russian sociocultural space. In the days of IT mainstreaming, these religions do not only open up new territories but also proselytize on the Internet. However, as the real and virtual spaces change with different speed and pace, almost ev...

The term “heterotopia”, introduced into scientific discourse by M. Foucault, is being increasingly used in the modern humanitaristics for the cultural area analysis. This article presents a typology of heterotopic spaces and their analysis in the scope of the Russian cultural landscape. Based on the E. Soja’s trialectics of spatiality – real spatiality, spatiality of mentalities and the “Thirdspace”, which is “habitable, the real and the imagined, the actual and the virtual” – we propose to distin...