“The Constitution of the Russian Federation says:“ The bearer of sovereignty and the only source of power in the Russian Federation is its multinational people. ” What is meant by the word "people"? Is this a specific concept or abstract, used only in politics? - I think that this question should be addressed to Vladimir Putin. Political importance is only of how it uses the word "people", and the rest of the meanings often acquire meaning depending on the context.

Comparing the history of the formation of the modern national identity of the Poles with a similar process among other peoples, in the author’s opinion, is a mistake. The article examines the question of whether it is possible to put forward in this case the thesis about the exclusivity of Polish identity, and also analyzes various attempts to interpret the essence of the ethnocultural phenomenon, which is called “Polishness”. Dear readers!

In 2010, 142.86 million people lived permanently in the Russian Federation [1] . The natural population decline was 239,568 people. There are 66 million men (46.2%) in Russia, 76.8 million women (53.8%). Of those who indicated their nationality during the 2010 census, 80.9% turned out to be Russian; Tatars - 3.87%; Ukrainians - 1.4%; Bashkirs - 1.16%; Chuvash - 1.05%; Chechens - 1.04%; Armenians - 0.86%; Avars - 0.67%; Mordovians - 0.54%; Kazakhs - 0.47 percent [2] .

Print Dmitry Dehant , Olga Molyarenko , Simon Cordonsky A significant part of the citizens of the Russian Federation is at a standstill of questions about which social group they themselves belong to and what group their parents belong to. Workers, peasants and employees, relations between whom formed the social structure of the USSR, have now disappeared.

In the Russian language there are several synonyms for the concept of “people” - population, nation, ethnic group, population, electorate. The difficulty is that in most cases they are defined through each other, and this does little to clarify their meaning, while at the same time indicating insufficient scientific elaboration of all these terms. Here are some examples from dictionaries.

The theory of the resource state and ethnososyre in Russia The Constitution of Russia, fixing the existence of the “national republics in the Russian Federation”, creates an opportunity to consider the processes taking place in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation through the prism of political nationalism.

Dear readers! The journal "Otechestvennye zapiski" resumes after a three-year break. This break was due to a seemingly random circumstance - the economic crisis of 2008 hit. And yet, the suspension of the magazine today seems almost natural. At the beginning of 2009, public life almost completely ceased to flow, and the interest in thorough analytics among a non-specialist - an “educated city dweller,” as we called the magazine reader among ourselves - clearly faded.

(A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin: Pro et contra. Anthology) Print Elena Pen A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin. Pro et contra. Anthology. SPb.: RHGA. Series "Russian Path", 2010. 767 p. Recently, book series is competing with cinematographic in terms of intensity of their occurrence. The presence of thematic lines is a distinctive sign of all self -respecting publishes. Sige of Comme il Faut.

Armenia has no analogue on the space of the former USSR, but most likely in the world, in the ethnic composition of the population. This is the country of one ethnic group. 97.9 percent of the population - Armenians. Nevertheless, Armenians in Armenia are much less than outside its limits.

* In Soviet times, the man had to be white. There was nothing in stores. And he, therefore, in the paint shop pours a bucket of car paint, takes a brush and along the railway line entering the enterprise, measures five steps and puts the cross on the rails. He measures five steps, and the cross puts a brush. Well, ”I need to, - as he said, to march the guard. The authorities sent . ” Well, " go, mark . " I went, went around the corner ...

Have you had to or did not have pride in our country? And if necessary, often or rarely? Have you had to or not have a sense of shame for our country? And if it was, often or rarely? The dynamics of competing, but equally significant patriotic emotions - pride and shame for the Fatherland - are impressive in the zero: in a decade, when Russia, according to a well -known formula, "rose from the knees", our fellow citizens began to experience these emotions much less.

Print Boris Mironov In post -Soviet times, many concepts of Marxist historiography were revised. But the views on the Russian revolution of 1917 as necessary, inevitable and logical are still very strong in science and in the mass consciousness. They seem to have immunity against the revision.

The magazine's design uses illustrations from the books: Der Graphische Zyklus. Berlin, 1956 Gustave Dore. Herausgegeben von Gotthard Brandler. Berlin, 1988 Men: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources. Dover Publications, Inc., 1980 Baldaev D. S. Tattoos of prisoners. St. Petersburg, 2001 Gogol N.V. Dead souls. Moscow, Leningrad: State Publishing House of Fiction, 1948 Picturesque Russia. St. Petersburg - Moscow, 1895. Caucasian tales. Moscow. Published by A. S.

Print Natalya Shushkova , Oleg Leibovich CUM CLAMANT TACENT [1] In the distant XIX century - in the thirty -seventh year - the famous British writer added one more to the dividing lines inside the society - linguistic: between the screaming minority and the silent majority. Turning to the history of the revolution, he discovered that “...

In the journalism of recent years, the term "people" is probably used most often. They refer to the people as a character, they worship him, speak on his behalf, formulate his problems, expose his enemies. Moreover, on the one hand, they condemn his vulgar tastes, condemn for passivity, lack of interest in political life, etc., on the other hand, appeal to him as a senior judge. Each of the parties also does not turn to a certain circle of voters, but certainly to “all the people”.