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“The state-generating factor in Ukraine should be Ukrainian nationality, not ethnicity…”
This was stated by the member of the Ukrainian Parliament Оlexander Feldman at the international conference “The world without nazism”, that was held in the Federation Council of Russia on December 17.
According to Mr. Feldman, the first 10-15 years of their independence, post-Soviet countries have been occupied with the issues of the state-building and are only now beginning to face the active search for national identity, the estimates of national history, the understanding of national symbols and traditions. The dissemination of xenophobia and extremism, the growth in popularity of the right-wing movements, riots motivated by ethnic hatred - these are the first challenges of the state-building in post-Soviet countries.
The classical understanding of the nation, based on the view, that “the cultural and ethnical homogeneous nation precedes the state and creates it” - is not suitable for the state-building in most post-Soviet countries. This type of state-building was taken as a base in German,
According to Mr. Feldman, in most post-Soviet countries, including