the federation or russia, if we did not define it, received a border of institutions that were separate from the empire only with lenin in 22-23 years when the soviet union was created, but even then the association of russia and of the soviet union, both inside russia and outside the soviet union, that is, during the cold war, russia and the soviet union were substitute words. that is, they were defined as one and the same thing, and to learn empires to exist in the context of a modern state, which is still only forms is informed by the national state after centuries of existence in other contexts. this is a very, very difficult process, just like how to learn for ukrainians whether the national project arose in the struggle with the state in opposition to the state, to learn to live in a state that is even one's own state, this is also processes are also very difficult and this change seems to me in the conditions of the russian-ukrainian war that began in 14th year, so it continued on such a large scale this year, this is an extremely serious impetus for reformatting not only the ukrainian identity and our way and