Stages of defining national identity in the official Political Discourse of modern Russia

The article examines the stages of transformation of national identity in the official political discourse of modern Russia. In the theoretical and methodological part, the study is based on the work of well-known Russian and foreign political scientists, sociologists and psychologists. The empirical basis of the research is the normative legal acts and texts of official public speeches of political figures. The authors note that modern Russian national-state identity is a macropolitical phenomenon understood as an interdisciplinary and intersection of political science phenomenon, englobing cognitive science, linguistics and history elements. Special attention in the study is paid to the tools of political discourse, the analysis of the use of which allows us to determine the stages of constructing the national and state identity of modern Russia. To review approaches to the essence of national and state identity, general scientific research methods are used: collection, analysis, classification and synthesis of information. The constructivism paradigm, taken as the methodological basis of the study, made it possible to identify the features characteristic of each stage of the construction of national and state identity and to identify the leading tools of political discourse, forms of interpretation and translation of the concept under study. As a result of the study, four stages of the transformation of national and state identity were identified, each of which corresponds to a leading narrative. The first stage (1991-1999) is distinguished from the subsequent ones by a pronounced "critical narrative", where the main line of building a dialogue with the "people" is based on examples of the "unsuccessful experience of the Soviet past". The leading narrative of the second stage (2000-2011) is the narrative of "total continuity", where the "millennial" experience of Russia and its "civilizational mission" are the basis for the translation of the national idea. The third stage (2012-2019) seems to be the central idea of the "state-forming Russian people". The consolidation of Russia's "positive goals" and its role as a "savior" takes place at the fourth stage (2020-2024), where the focus is on the approval and broadcasting of already declared spiritual and moral values. In conclusion, it is noted that a new round in the construction of national and state identity both in political discourse and in the political and managerial dimension will take place in 2025, when an updated version of the "Strategy of the State National Policy of the Russian Federation" will be adopted.