RUDN Journal of World HistoryRUDN Journal of World History2312-81272312-833XPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)1034Research ArticleBYZANTINE HERITAGE AND THE DEVIATION OF THE WESTERN PROJECTVoroninS Anatol'evichDepartment of World Historysvoronin.rudn@mail.ruPeoples' Friendship University of Russia15012016151003092016Copyright © 2016,2016The author refers to the study of Western axiological project from the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment to the neo-liberal globalization. He wondered whether the Western vector of the globalization only. Based on the historical experience of the Byzantine Empire and Russia as the successor to the Byzantine heritage, the author concludes that the Western project of putting ideology, turned into eastern and Russian, with the rate of economic development and civil liberties - the Western.ByzantiumByzantine heritagethe Western project of liberalismВизантиявизантийское наследиезападный проектлиберализм