ETHNO-CULTURAL SELF-ORGANISATION AS A FACTOR OF VIABILITY AND NATIONAL RESISTANCE OF THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE TO RUSSIAN AGGRESSION

After the collapse of the USSR, Russia took a course to restore its influence on post-Soviet countries. In an attempt to restore the Russian empire, Putin's rascist regime is striving to destroy the sovereign Ukrainian state and ‘denationalise’ its people. Under such circumstances, an important factor of viability and national resistance can be found in the ethnocultural self-organisation of the Ukrainian nation and all its ethnic communities. The purpose of the article – to study the theoretical and methodological principles, tools and ways of strengthening of self-organisational processes in the ethno-cultural sphere as an important factor in the viability and national resistance of the Ukrainian people in the context of russian aggression. The theoretical and methodological basis of the article is the theory of ethnocultural self-organization, methods of systemic and structural-functional analysis, modeling and forecasting, synergistic and ethnopolitical approaches. Conclusions and prospects for further research. The theoretical and methodological principles of the investigation of ethno-cultural self-organization of the Ukrainian people are summarized and developed, the main forms and methods of self-regulation, self-reproduction and self-transformation of the ethnos in the context of russian aggression are revealed. One of the main goals of russia's full-scale war against Ukraine is the elimination of the culture and historical memory of the Ukrainian people, the entire system of their ethnicity. In such a situation, the Ukrainian nation managed to organise itself to the maximum extent possible and put up a heroic resistance to the aggressor's invading goals. The Russian-Ukrainian war encouraged Ukrainians to coordinate their own actions, establish horizontal ties, and solve urgent problems on their own through ethno-cultural self-organisation. It is proven that among the main means and forms of the ethno-cultural self-organisation process, an essential role is played by the ethnic picture of the world, Ukrainian ethnic and national ideologies, Ukrainian culture, which concentrates the historical experience of the people, Ukrainian ethnocentrism, ethno-national identity, Ukrainian auto- and hetero-rosterotypes, in which the positive features of the Ukrainian community were significantly strengthened during the war and the barbaric features of russians were manifested. It is emphasised that russian aggression is aimed not only at destroying Ukraine as a state and completely dissolving Ukrainian identity and replacing it with hybrid projections (“malorussian”, “novorussian”, etc.), but also at destroying the modern world order. Further research into the ethno-cultural self-organisation of Ukraine should be conducted in the direction of clarifying the patterns and trends of ethnic self-regulation, the conditions for increasing its effectiveness, as well as studying the experience of self-organisation of the ethno-cultural sphere in the European Union.