The article reveals the complex problem of the geopolitical potential of national identity in ensuring the societal security of modern Russia. The author uses an interdisciplinary research methodology (social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of history), and also substantiates the methodological necessity of correcting the classical approach to understanding societal security and developing an integral - "state-social" approach that takes into account the role of the state as a significant social subject of security and construction national identity. The socio-ontological foundations of the author's approach are the historical processes of deglobalization, the "collapse of multiculturalism" and the strengthening of the role of states-civilizations in the formation of a new multipolar world. The article discusses the special geopolitical position and historical role of Russia in the post-Soviet space, as well as the specifics of its formation as a multi-(over) national state with a unique national identity, including civil and cultural-historical levels. The author defends the idea that the unique ability of Russian civilization – the organic existence of many social, ethnic, religious communities, different identities – in a single geographical, political, socio-economic and socio-cultural space – is the most important geopolitical resource of national identity, ensuring the societal security of Russia as a subject of the post-Soviet and global geopolitical space. In conclusion, the author's vision of the main aspects of the geopolitical potential of national identity in ensuring the societal security of modern Russia is presented.

The article reveals the complex problem of the geopolitical potential of national identity in ensuring the societal security of modern Russia. The author uses an interdisciplinary research methodology (social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of history), and also substantiates the methodological necessity of correcting the classical approach to understanding societal security and developing an integral - "state-social" approach that takes into account the role of the state as a significant social subject of security and construction national identity. The socio-ontological foundations of the author's approach are the historical processes of deglobalization, the "collapse of multiculturalism" and the strengthening of the role of states-civilizations in the formation of a new multipolar world. The article discusses the special geopolitical position and historical role of Russia in the post-Soviet space, as well as the specifics of its formation as a multi-(over) national state with a unique national identity, including civil and cultural-historical levels. The author defends the idea that the unique ability of Russian civilization – the organic existence of many social, ethnic, religious communities, different identities – in a single geographical, political, socio-economic and socio-cultural space – is the most important geopolitical resource of national identity, ensuring the societal security of Russia as a subject of the post-Soviet and global geopolitical space. In conclusion, the author's vision of the main aspects of the geopolitical potential of national identity in ensuring the societal security of modern Russia is presented.