мир

МИР in Russian carries two core meanings that are historically intertwined:

МИР = мир =

peace world / human society

This dual meaning is not an accident. It comes from Old Slavic where mirъ referred to both the entire social order and the state of harmony within it. To “be at peace” and “to be in the world” were linguistically one condition. If the community was whole, the world was whole.

There is also a third historical sense:

a village commune, a traditional form of local self-governance in Russia (The peasant мир collectively owned land and maintained social-ethical equilibrium.)

So when someone writes МИР in uppercase, it resonates as:

WORLD / PEACE / COMMUNITY

—all compressed into a single emblem.

It is the cosmos without war.

It is society without division.

It is the circle of those who dwell together and keep order with one another.

One word for a unified world at peace.