Multinational in Form, <i>Russkii</i> in Content: Explaining Russian Citizens’ Enduring Preference for a Multinational State
Journal: Nationalities Papers
Year: 2025

Abstract Russian nation-building policy has often been described as ambiguous, blending a rhetorical commitment to the state’s multinational character together with more exclusionary rhetoric and policies. Drawing from original survey questions on national identity commissioned in December 2022, I find that Russian citizens continue to endorse a multinational vision of the Russian state during wartime. Respondents are simultaneously likely to exclude minorities from being fully considered as “tr