Russian National Identity Quest as Motivation for Policymaking
Journal: Clio s Psyche
Year: 2022

An indistinct and ambiguous national identity is Russia’s key national characteristic. Throughout their thousand-year history as a people, Russians have been trying to figure out who they are, and to this day they do not have an answer. Are they European? Not if we were to believe President Vladimir Putin (2013/September 19), who declares: “For us (and I am talking about Russians and Russia), questions about who we are and who we want to be are increasingly prominent.” Moscow’s official narrativ