The article deals with the issue of the formation of national identity in the post-Soviet countries. National identity is an indispensable factor in the stable and sustainable existence of the state. Over the past years, a whole variety of completely new integration systems has developed on the territory of the post-Soviet space. The transformations taking place in the post-Soviet space represent a significant stage in the world politics of our time. Independent states formed in the post–Soviet space faced a number of problems that required immediate solution: among the main ones was the issue of historical, cultural and finally national self-identification, which implies the perception by society of itself as a single nation with a common historical, cultural, ethnic path; the perception of its nation as part of the world system. Due to the uniqueness of the historical path of the former Soviet republics, their transformation processes have their own exceptional specifics of development. The post-Soviet states are representatives of a unique transformational model: their national–state identity includes both features common to the entire post-Soviet space in the form of pre-Soviet, Soviet history, culture, value structure and the territory on which it existed, as well as private individual features for each state - linguistic specificity, traditional values, national interests and foreign policy vectors, relevant for young independent republics. At the moment, we are witnessing the formation of a new form of national identity, which consists in the awareness by citizens of the state as a sovereign and equal part of the world community, interacting equally with the whole world, and not being exclusively part of the post-Soviet space.
