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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">354</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>The National Idea of the Present-day Russia: Country, State, empire</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>The National Idea of the Present-day Russia: Country, State, empire</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Karabushchenko</surname><given-names>Pavel L</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Karabushchenko</surname><given-names>Pavel L</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>Pavel_karabushenko@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff749" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff749"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2014</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>151</fpage><lpage>157</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2014/issue/2/article/354">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2014/issue/2/article/354</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(39)/151-157.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(39)/151-157.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Just a century ago in 1113, Nestor the Chronicler finished the main paper of his life «The Primary Chronicle». In his paper he mentioned the diagnosis of the Rus " the land is great and rich, but there is no order in it " for the first time. The centuries passed, and Russia did not get rid of that diagnosis-damnation. The search of a national idea by the elite has been delayed for the indefinite time. That is why the epochs of change and stagnation often occur in RussiaвЂ¦</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Just a century ago in 1113, Nestor the Chronicler finished the main paper of his life «The Primary Chronicle». In his paper he mentioned the diagnosis of the Rus " the land is great and rich, but there is no order in it " for the first time. The centuries passed, and Russia did not get rid of that diagnosis-damnation. The search of a national idea by the elite has been delayed for the indefinite time. That is why the epochs of change and stagnation often occur in RussiaвЂ¦</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>цивилизация</kwd><kwd>страна</kwd><kwd>держава</kwd><kwd>империя</kwd><kwd>геополитика</kwd><kwd>элиты</kwd><kwd>власть</kwd><kwd>война и мир</kwd><kwd>национальная идея</kwd><kwd>Россия</kwd><kwd>a civilization</kwd><kwd>a country</kwd><kwd>a state</kwd><kwd>an empire</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>elites</kwd><kwd>an authority</kwd><kwd>war and peace</kwd><kwd>a national idea</kwd><kwd>Russia</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>цивилизация</kwd><kwd>страна</kwd><kwd>держава</kwd><kwd>империя</kwd><kwd>геополитика</kwd><kwd>элиты</kwd><kwd>власть</kwd><kwd>война и мир</kwd><kwd>национальная идея</kwd><kwd>Россия</kwd><kwd>a civilization</kwd><kwd>a country</kwd><kwd>a state</kwd><kwd>an empire</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>elites</kwd><kwd>an authority</kwd><kwd>war and peace</kwd><kwd>a national idea</kwd><kwd>Russia</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>