Paul Goble
Staunton, December 30 – President Dmitry Medvedev’s suggestion this week that "the idea of a ‘rossiiskaya natsiya’ of "Russian nation” is absolutely productive, and one need not be ashamed of using the term” has sparked dissent from those who insist that "rossiiskaya” is a non-ethnic political term while "natsiya” is an ethnic one by definition.
While some Russian commentators are expressing support for Medvedev’s idea because they see it as opening the way for the assimilation of non-Russians inside the country, most are objecting to this formulation as a contradiction in terms or one that threatens the Russian "natsiya” itself.
Those opposed note that the very idea of a "rossisskaya natsiya” appears to be Medvedev’s update of the "sovetsky narod” or "Soviet people” in the USSR, but they note that in Soviet times, not only ...
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