STATE PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL IDENTITY CONSTITUTING: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECT

This article is intended to elucidate the institutional aspect of national exist- ence and to research the state principles of constituting of national identity and their gradual development with the increasing institutionalization of national being. National state social institutions function not only in the form of certain rules, norms, instructions and values that ensure the transfer of social experience, but rather act as certain institutions and organiza- tions controlled and managed by the state, and it is their activity that enables the nation to unite and regenerate in all the diversity of its subjective and objective characteristics; the criteria of national identi? cation do not exist by themselves, but are the result of purposeful activity of state mechanism as to their implementation and institutionalization