This question can be interpreted in two ways:
1. "How to choose which nationality to write in an official document?"
Article 26 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation states: "Everyone has the right to determine and indicate his nationality. No one can be forced to define and indicate their nationality."
In case you yourself want to indicate your nationality or an official believes that Article 26 does not apply to his department, there is an "Alphabetical list options answers of the population for coding the answer to question 7 of the census form L of the All-Russian population census of 2010, "approved by order of Rosstat No. 74 of January 27, 2010. It contains 1840 nationalities, including "man of the earth", "man of the world", "Americans", "Estonians Orthodox", "blasphemy", "cosmopolitans", "Jews of Bukhara", "Great Russians", "crossbreed", "Brest residents", "inhabitants of the universe", "bulbashi" and "Khokhls". Citizens of the Russian Federation are not are obliged to choose the nationality of one of the parents and not change it to the grave.It remains to be hoped that the local authorities in your locality are aware of these "innovations".
2. "How to determine your nationality for yourself?"
Perhaps you are not ready to identify yourself in one word, by mom or dad. If so, then no big deal. Self-identification is a deeply personal matter, and the concept of nationality in its Russian version was invented by the Russian state bureaucracy over a hundred years ago for their own benefit. Therefore, it is better to free your consciousness and not confuse these things - after all, this is exactly what Leviathan wants from you.
Any state is a machine of subordination and coercion. The concept of nationality is one of the tools that this machine uses to control the population of Russia. In the history of the USSR and Russia, there were few cases when people or ethnic groups received prizes for "good" nationality. In 99% of cases, nationality does not affect a person's life. But in the 1% of cases when she plays a role, this role is almost always negative:
a person is deported because he is Latvian or Korean;
he is made a vassal of Kadyrov because he is a Chechen;
he is not given access to secret documents, because he is a Jew;
he is arrested on charges of extremism, because he is Russian and has spoken about it publicly too many times;
he is called names at school because he is a Tajik;
he is suspected of betrayal because he is Ukrainian.
Even if you have a real sense of community with people of some ethnic group, remember that the state will never allow this group to really defend their interests. After all, this is a zero-sum game: if the ethnic group has more rights and opportunities, then the official has lost them. The maximum that they will give you is an official from your ethnic group, so that he robs you with an understanding of local specifics and in a national costume.
So my advice is: define yourself as who you feel you are. If the one you feel like is not in the list of 1840 nationalities and this feeling of self does not fit in 2-3 words, it does not matter. For example, I define myself as a "Russian American non-religious half-breed Jew from Latvia" and do not worry that there are not enough people with such a self-identification to dance or fill a cattle car.
With each year of his life, a person expands the choice of communication more and more, getting to know new people. In order for a new acquaintance to make contact with you, you need to make a pleasant impression on him. To avoid uncomfortable situations, it is important to know what nationality the person in front of you is in order to behave in accordance with the moral and ethical standards of his country. By most surnames, you can accurately determine the nationality of your friends, neighbors, business partners, etc.
Russians- use surnames with suffixes -an, -yn, -in, -skikh, -ov, -ev, -skoi, -tskoi, -ih, -ih (Snegirev, Ivanov, Voronin, Sinitsyn, Donskoy, Moskovskikh, Sedykh);
Belarusians- typical Belarusian surnames end in -ich, -chik, -ka, -ko, -onak, -yonak, -uk, -ik, -ski. (Radkevich, Dubrova, Parshonok, Kuharchik, Kastsyushka); many surnames in Soviet years were Russified and Polished (Dubrovsky, Kosciuszko);
Poles- most of the surnames have the suffix -sk, -tsk, and the ending -ij (-th), indicating masculine and feminine gender (Sushitsky, Kovalskaya, Khodetsky, Volnitskaya); also exist double surnames- if a woman, when getting married, wants to leave her last name (Mazur-Komorovskaya); in addition to these surnames, surnames with an unchanged form are also common among the Poles (Nowak, Sienkiewicz, Wuytsik, Wozniak). Ukrainians with surname endings in -y are not Ukrainians, but Ukrainian Poles.;
Ukrainians- the first classification of surnames of a given nationality is formed with the help of suffixes -enko, -ko, -uk, -yuk (Kreschenko, Grishko, Vasilyuk, Kovalchuk); the second series denotes the kind of any craft or occupation (Potter, Koval); the third group of surnames are individual Ukrainian words(Gorobets, Ukrainian, Parubok), as well as a merger of words (Vernigora, Nepiyvoda, Bilous).
Latvians- a feature to the masculine gender is indicated by a surname ending in -s, -is, and to the feminine - in -a, -e (Verbitskis - Verbitska, Shurins - Shurin)
Lithuanians - male surnames end in -onis, -unas, -utis, -aytis, -enas (Pyatrenas, Norvydaitis), female surnames are formed from the husband's surname using the suffixes -en, -yuven, -uven and the endings -е (Grinius - Grinyuvene), surnames unmarried girls contain the basis of the father's surname with the addition of suffixes -ut, -polut, -ait and endings -e (Orbakas - Orbakaite);
Estonians- male and female sex with the help of surnames does not differ, all foreign surnames(mainly German) were Estonianized at one time (Rozenberg - Roozimäe), this process is still in effect today. for example, in order to be able to play for the Estonian national team, football players Sergei Khokhlov and Konstantin Kolbasenko had to change their names to Simson and Nahk;
French people- many surnames are prefixed with Le or De (Le Pen, Mol Pompadour); mostly dissimilar nicknames and personal names were used to form surnames (Robert, Jolie, Cauchon - a pig);
Romanians: -sku, -u(l), -an.
Serbs:-ich.
English- the following surnames are common: formed from the names of the place of residence (Scott, Wales); designating a profession (Hoggart - a shepherd, Smith - a blacksmith); pointing to appearance character and appearance (Armstrong - strong, Sweet - sweet, Bragg - bragging);
Germans- surnames formed from personal names (Werner, Peters); surnames that characterize a person (Krause - wavy, Klein - small); surnames indicating the type of activity (Müller - miller, Lehmann - geomor);
swedes- most surnames end in -sson, -berg, -steady, -strom (Andersson, Olsson, Forsberg, Bostrom);
Norse- are formed from personal names with the help of the suffix -en (Larsen, Hansen), surnames can occur without suffixes and endings (Per, Morten); Norwegian surnames can repeat the names of animals, trees and natural phenomena(Blizzard - blizzard, Svane - swan, Furu - pine);
Italians- surnames are characterized by suffixes -ini, -ino, -ello, -illo, -etti, -etto, -ito (Benedetto, Moretti, Esposito), can end in -o, -a, -i (Conti, Giordano, Costa) ; the prefixes di- and- denote, respectively, the person's belonging to his genus and geographical structure (Di Moretti is the son of Moretti, Da Vinci is from Vinci);
Spaniards and Portuguese - have surnames ending in -ez, -az, -iz, -oz (Gomez, Lopez), surnames that indicate the character of a person are also common (Alegre - joyful, Bravo - brave, Malo - horseless);
Turks- most often surnames have the ending -oglu, -ji, -zade (Mustafaoglu, Ekindzhi, Kuindzhi, Mammadzade), when forming surnames they often used Turkish names or everyday words (Ali, Abaza - a fool, Kolpakchi - a hat);
Bulgarians - almost all Bulgarian surnames formed from personal names and suffixes -ov, -ev (Konstantinov, Georgiev);
Gagauz: -oglo.
Tatars: -in, -ishin.
Greeks- the surnames of the Greeks cannot be confused with any other surnames, only they have the endings -idis, -kos, -pulos (Angelopoulos, Nikolaidis);
Czechs- the main difference from other surnames is the obligatory ending -ova in female surnames, even if where it would seem inappropriate (Valdrova, Ivanovova, Andersonova).
Georgians- Surnames ending in -shvili, -dze, -uri, -ava, -a, -ua, -ia, -ni, -li, -si are common (Baratashvili, Mikadze, Adamia, Karchava, Gvishiani, Tsereteli);
Armenians- a significant part of the surnames of the inhabitants of Armenia has the suffix -yan (Hakopyan, Galustyan); Also, -yants, -uni.
Moldovans: -sku, -u(l), -an.
Azerbaijanis- formed surnames, taking as a basis Azerbaijani names and attaching to them the Russian suffixes -ov, -ev (Mamedov, Aliyev, Gasanov, Abdullayev). Also, -zade, -li, ly, -oglu, -kyzy.
Jews- the main group consists of surnames with roots Levi and Cohen (Levin, Levitan Kagan, Koganovich, Katz); the second group originated from male and female Jewish names with the addition of various suffixes (Yakobson, Yakubovich, Davidson, Godelson, Tsivyan, Beilis, Abramovich, Rubinchik, Vigdorchik, Mandelstam); the third classification of surnames reflects the character of a person, the features of his appearance or belonging to a profession (Kaplan is a chaplain, Rabinovich is a rabbi, Melamed is a pestun, Schwarzbard is black-bearded, Stiller is quiet, Shtarkman is strong).
Ossetians: -ti.
Mordva: -yn, -in.
Chinese and Koreans- for the most part, these are surnames consisting of one, less often of two syllables (Tang, Liu, Duan, Qiao, Choi, Kogai);
Japanese- modern Japanese surnames are formed by the merger of two full-valued words (Wada - sweetness and rice field, Igarashi - 50 storms, Katayama - hill, Kitamura - north and village); The most common Japanese surnames are: Takahashi, Kobayashi, Kato, Suzuki, Yamamoto.
As you can see, in order to determine the nationality of a person, it is enough to accurately analyze his last name, highlighting the suffix and ending.
WHAT DO THE SURNAME ON "-IN" MEAN? SURNAMES ENDING IN -IN HAVE RUSSIAN ROOT OR JEWISH?
In the collection of the famous Slavic linguist B. O Unbegaun “Russian Surnames”, one can read that surnames with “in” are mainly the Russian type of surnames.
Why the ending "-in"? Basically, all surnames ending in "in" come from words with the ending -а / -я and from nouns female ending in a soft consonant.
There are not a few examples of the erroneous addition of -in to the bases with a final solid consonant: Orekhin, Karpin, Markin, where -ov should have been. And in another case -ov turned out to be in place -in: Shishimorov from the basis of shishimora. It is possible to mix formants. After all, among Russians -in and -ov have been semantically indistinguishable for more than a thousand years. The meaning of the difference was lost even in the common Slavic language, the choice of -ov or -in depends only survivingly on the phonetic feature of the stem (Nikonov "Geography of Surnames").
Do you know how the name of the famous leader came about militia 1611-1612 years of Minin? Minin had a personal nickname Sukhoruk, he did not have a last name. And Minin meant "son of Mina". Orthodox name"Mina" was widespread in Rus'.
Another old Russian surname- Semin, also a surname on "-in". According to the main version, the surname Semin goes back to the baptismal male name Semyon. The name Semyon is the Russian form of the ancient Jewish name Simeon, meaning "hearing", "heard by God." On behalf of Semyon in Rus', many derivative forms were formed, one of which - Syoma - formed the basis of this surname.
The famous Slavic linguist B. O. Unbegaun in the collection “Russian Surnames” believes that the surname Semin was formed from the Russian baptismal name after following scheme: "Semyon - Syoma - Semin."
Let us give another example of a surname, which we studied in detail in the family diploma. Rogozhin is an old Russian surname. According to the main version, the surname keeps the memory of the profession of distant ancestors. One of the first representatives of the Rogozhins could be engaged in the manufacture of matting, or trade in fabric.
Rogozhey was called a coarse woven fabric from bast tapes. A bast hut (bast mat, bast mat) in Rus' was called a workshop where bast mats were woven, and a bast mat was called a bast weaver or a bast mat merchant.
In his close circle Rogozhnik's household was known as "Rogozhin's wife", "Rogozhin's son", "Rogozhin's grandchildren". Over time, the terms denoting the degree of kinship disappeared, and the hereditary surname - Rogozhins - was assigned to the descendants of Rogozhin.
Such Russian surnames ending in "-in" include: Pushkin (Pushka), Gagarin (Gagara), Borodin (Beard), Ilyin (Ilya), Ptitsyn (Bird); Fomin (from the personal name of Thomas); Belkin (from the nickname "squirrel"), Borozdin (Furrow), Korovin (Cow), Travin (Grass), Zamin and Zimin (winter) and many others
Please note that the words from which surnames are formed on "in" mostly end in "-a" or "-ya". We will not be able to say “Borodov” or “Ilyinov”, it would be more logical and sonorous to pronounce “Ilyin” or “Borodin”.
Why do some people think that last names ending in "-in" have Jewish roots? Is it really? No, this is not true, one cannot judge the origin of a surname by one ending. The sound of Jewish surnames coincides with Russian endings just by pure chance.
It is always necessary to research the surname itself. The ending "ov", for some reason, does not cause us doubts. We believe that surnames ending in "-ov" are definitely Russian. But there are exceptions. For example, we recently prepared a beautiful family diploma for a wonderful family named Maksyutov.
The surname Maksyutov has the ending "ov", common among Russian surnames. But, if you explore the surname deeper, it turns out that the surname Maksyutov is formed from the Tatar male name“Maqsoud”, which in Arabic means “desire, premeditated intention, aspiration, goal”, “long-awaited, desired”. The name Maksud had several dialect variants: Maksut, Mahsud, Mahsut, Maksut. This name is still widespread among the Tatars and Bashkirs to this day.
“The surname Maksyutov is an old princely surname Tatar origin. ABOUT ancient origin surnames Maksyutov say historical sources. The surname was first documented in the 16th century: Maksutovs (Maksutovs, obsolete Maksutovs, Tat. Maksutovlar) - the Volga-Bulgarian princely Murzin family, descended from the Kasimov prince Maksut (1554), in the genealogical legend, Prince Maksut was called a lancer and a descendant of the prince Kashima." Now there is almost no doubt about the origin of the surname.
How to find out if a surname starts with -in Jewish origin Or is it a native Russian surname? Always analyze the word that underlies your last name.
Here are examples of Jewish surnames ending in “-in” or “-ov”: Edmin (derived from the name of the German city of Emden), Kotin (derived from the Hebrew קטן- in the Ashkenazi pronunciation “kotn”, meaning “small”), Eventov (derived from Hebrew "even tov" - " gem”), Khazin (derived from the Hebrew “khazan”, in the Ashkenazi pronunciation “khazn”, meaning “a person leading worship in the synagogue”), Superfin (translated as “very beautiful”) and many others.
The ending "-in" is just an ending by which one cannot judge the nationality of a surname. You always need to research the surname, analyze the word that underlies it and try to search in various books and archival documents for the first mention of your surname. Only when all the information has been collected will you be able to establish with certainty the origin of your surname and find answers to your questions.
SURNAMES ENDING IN SKIY/-SKAYA, -TSKIY/-TSKAYA
Many Russians have a firm and unfounded conviction that surnames in -sky are necessarily Polish. From history textbooks, the names of several Polish magnates are known, formed from the names of their possessions: Pototsky and Zapototsky, Zablotsky, Krasinsky. But from the same textbooks, the names of many Russians with the same suffixes are known: Konstantin Grigoryevich Zabolotsky, roundabout of Tsar John III, late 15th - early 16th centuries; clerk Semyon Zaborovsky, early 16th century; boyars Shuisky and Belsky, close associates of Ivan the Terrible. Famous Russian artists Levitsky, Borovikovsky, Makovsky, Kramskoy.
An analysis of modern Russian surnames shows that forms in -sky (-tsky) exist in parallel with variants in -ov (-ev, -in), but there are fewer of them. For example, in Moscow in the 70s of the twentieth century, for 330 people with the surname Krasnov / Krasnova, there were only 30 with the surname Krasnovsky / Krasnovskaya. But enough rare surnames Kuchkov and Kuchkovsky, Makov and Makovsky are represented almost equally.
A significant part of the surnames ending in -sky / -skaya, -tsky / -tskaya are formed from geographical and ethnic names. In the letters of our readers who want to know about the origin of their surnames, the following surnames are mentioned in -sky / -sky.
Brynsky. The author of this letter, Evgeny Sergeevich Brynsky, himself sent the story of his last name. We give only a small piece of the letter, since it is not possible to publish it in its entirety. Bryn - river Kaluga region, flows into the tributary of the Oka Zhizdra. In the old days, large dense Bryn forests stretched along it, in which the Old Believers took refuge. According to the epic about Ilya Muromets, it was in the Bryn forests that the Nightingale the Robber lived. We add that there are several settlements Bryn in the Kaluga and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. The surname Brynski / Brynska found in Poland is formed from the name of two settlements Brynsk in different parts country and also, apparently, goes back to the names of the rivers Bryn, Brynica. There is no uniform interpretation of the names of these rivers in science. If the suffix -ets is added to the name of an inhabited place, then such a word denotes a native of this place. In the Crimea in the 60s - 70s of the XX century, the winegrower Maria Bryntseva was well known. Her surname is derived from the word brynets, that is, a native of the city or village of Bryn.
Garbavitsky. This Belarusian surname corresponds to Russian Gorbovitsky (in Belarusian language the letter a is written in place of the unstressed o). The surname is formed from the name of some settlement of Gorbovitsa. In the materials we have, there are only Gorbov, Gorbovo and Gorbovtsy. All these names come from the designations of the terrain: humpback - hillock, sloping hill.
Dubovskaya. The surname is formed from the name of one of the numerous settlements: Dubovka, Dubovo, Dubovoe, Dubovskaya, Dubovsky, Dubovskoye, Dubovtsy, located in all parts of the country. To find out from which one, it is possible only according to the information preserved in the family, where the ancestors who received this surname lived, or where they came from to their place of further residence. Emphasis in the surname on "o": Dubovsky / Dubovskaya.
Steblivsky. Ukrainian surname corresponding to Russian - Steblevsky; formed from the names of settlements Steblivka in the Transcarpathian region or Steblev-Cherkasy. In Ukrainian orthography, i is written in place of the second e.
Tersky. The surname comes from the name of the Terek River and indicates that someone from distant ancestors this person lived there. There were the Terek region and the Terek Cossacks. So the bearers of the surname Tersky may also be descendants of the Cossacks.
Uryansky. The surname, apparently, is formed from the name of the settlement Urya. In our materials, such a name is recorded in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Perhaps there are similar names in other places, since the name of the settlement is associated with the name of the river and with the designation ethnic group ur, as well as with the name of the medieval Turkic people Uryanka. Similar names could be found in different places, since medieval peoples led a nomadic lifestyle and assigned the name of their ethnic group to those places where they lingered for a long time.
Chiglinsky. The surname comes from the name of the settlement Chigla Voronezh region, which, apparently, is associated with the designation of the union of the medieval Turkic tribes Chigili.
Shabansky. The surname is formed from the names of the settlements Shabanovo, Shabanovskoye, Shabanskoye, located in different parts of the country. These names come from the Turkic name Shaban of Arabic origin. IN Arabic shaban is the name of the eighth month lunar calendar. The name Shaban is also attested in Russian peasant families in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. In parallel with this, the spelling variant Shiban was noted in the Russian language - obviously, by analogy with the Russian shibat, zashibat. In the records of 1570-1578, Prince Ivan Andreevich Shiban Dolgoruky is mentioned; in 1584, the stirrup grooms of Tsar Theodore Ioannovich Osip Shiban and Danilo Shikhman Ermolaevich Kasatkins. The servant of Prince Kurbsky was called Vasily Shibanov - he was executed by Ivan the Terrible in 1564.
In addition, the name of the ethnic group is known Siberian Tatars Shibans and generic name Crimean Tatars shiban murzas. The Perm Region has locality Shibanovo, and in Ivanovskaya - Shibanikha.
So closely related different types proper names: personal names, geographical and ethnic names, as well as surnames.
One's belonging to a particular nation can be determined by many factors.
- Here, both the appearance of a person and his speech and even the nationality of his parents can play a role.
- But the main thing is how a person realizes himself.
- That is, if someone was born in Tatarstan, but realizes and behaves like a Russian, he will be a Russian, not a Tatar.
How to determine nationality by appearance in women and men is a serious problem. Unfortunately, now the blood of an average person contains at least two or three nations - and Tatar-Mongol yoke, and Great Patriotic War and the multinationality of the country. The signs are blurred. But you can try to highlight individual parameters - the cut and setting of the eyes, the shape of the body, skull and nose, the color type of the skin, eyes, hair, hair type, and so on. Pivot tables about each nation are quite realistic to find.
But the question of how to determine the nationality of a child is much more difficult. It depends on what state he is currently in. For example, in Russia, nationality is determined solely by the father. As in most other countries. And only in Israel - on the mother's side. That is, if a child was conceived from a man of any other nationality and a Jewess, then he will be a Jew in Israel and have the nationality of his father in his homeland.
How to determine nationality by last name
To correctly determine your nationality by last name, you will have to partially remember school course morphology. Because the presence of a particular morpheme in a word depends on which language it belongs to.
It is necessary to carry out the following procedure to determine the nationality by last name.
- Write it out on a piece of paper and decompose it into morphemes.
- Pay attention to the suffix. For example, Ukrainian suffixes include - ko, ochko, enko, ovsk, evsk. Tatar - in, ov, ev.
- Learn the root. If at the root of the word there is some kind of business or animal, it is worth looking for what language this word came from. If there are two roots, then in most cases the surname is Slavic.
- If you feel the sound of another language, you need to study each morpheme separately for its belonging to a particular language.
Nationality - in modern Russian, a term denoting a person's belonging to a certain ethnic community; complicated historical education, it is formed as a result of blood mixing of races and tribes, many redistributions of lands with which it connects its fate, and the spiritual and cultural process that creates its unique spiritual face.
The concept of "nationality" in the understanding of philosophers
"Nationality is a historical spiritual community of people interconnected by the unity of the Faith, spiritual and material culture. Neither territory, nor state affiliation, nor blood and anthropological type, nor way of life, nor even language in themselves are signs that distinguish a representative of one nationality from a representative of another ... "(N. Berdyaev)
There are two opposite points of view on the existence of nationalities. Some believe that nationality is an atavism. By identifying oneself with one or another nationality, a person limits himself to the framework of this nationality, and this is just another restriction on the freedom of thought and development. Others that she is a value.
Man enters humanity through national individuality, as national man, and not an abstract person, like a Russian, a Frenchman, a German or an Englishman. A person cannot jump over a whole step of being, because of this he would become impoverished and empty. Culture has never been and never will be abstractly human; it is always concretely human, i.e. national, individual-folk, and only in this quality ascending to universal humanity.
The concept of "nationality" from the point of view of historians
Anton D. Smith said: "A nationality is a group of people having a name, myths about common forefathers, common historical memories, one or more elements common culture, connection with the motherland and a certain degree of solidarity, at least among the elite."
One nationality can consist of several racial types, and most often from their hybrids. Starting from the "Great Migration of Nations" and up to our time, there was a significant mixing of races and at certain stages historical development a person's nationality was determined by different countries in various ways.
IN Nazi Germany nationality was determined on the basis of the nationality of the ancestors and biologically - according to outward signs. In Russia until the beginning of the 20th century, the question of ethnic background there was practically no person, although there was information about religion in the name sheet about the students and in the matriculation certificate. Since 1850, a column about the nationality of students appeared in the statement foreign origin, and information about Jews also appeared in the administrative record of the city's residents. In the passports, the column "nationality" appeared only when Soviet power, as part of the fight against any religion. At the same time, when obtaining a passport, a citizen made a choice based on the nationality of his parents. Currently, in many countries, nationality is not indicated in passports, but only citizenship.
An important criterion of individual freedom is the possibility of self-identification provided and guaranteed by law. In accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 26 of the Constitution Russian Federation, everyone has the right to determine and indicate their nationality, no one can be forced to determine and indicate their nationality. Thus, the Russian Federation recognizes, first of all, the right of everyone to freely determine and, at their own discretion, indicate or not indicate their nationality.
The basis of the national self-identification of a person is not just the desire to be a person of a certain nationality, but the awareness of one's belonging to a certain ethnic community due to the spiritual connection with a common language and culture. The current legislation does not establish the procedure for determining the nationality of a citizen. The presence in the birth certificate of a citizen of an indication of the nationality of his parents is not in itself a determination of the nationality of this citizen.
In Russia, along with citizenship, nationality was indicated in the passport, it was determined by the nationality of the father or mother indicated in the birth certificate. If the parents had different nationalities, then when issuing a passport for the first time upon reaching the age of 16, the person himself determined which of them to write in the passport. In the future, the record of nationality was not subject to change. The column "Nationality" was also an indispensable attribute of all kinds of questionnaires and other accounting documents. Now such a column is excluded from the passport. This column is also not in other official documents, but if it is found somewhere, then the citizen is not required to fill it out. If desired, you can indicate your nationality by making an appropriate statement (link) in your autobiography, resume, Internet, media, any public speech or sociological survey.
Information about nationality in civil status records is entered only at the request of persons (persons) who applied to the registry office with an application for state registration of a civil status act, in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Law of November 15, 1997 No. 143-FZ "On acts of civil status" . If information about nationality is indicated in the entry of a civil status act, then they are also entered in the certificate of state registration of a civil status act.
From a legal point of view, the definition of nationality does not entail any legal consequences, because nationality cannot serve as a basis for granting any special privileges to a person. The Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 19) guarantees the equality of human and civil rights and freedoms, regardless of race or nationality. The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Article 136) provides for criminal liability for violating the equality of rights and freedoms depending on the race and nationality of citizens. The vast majority of foreign countries have the same rules. At the same time, the importance of a person's national identity should not be underestimated. The right to preserve and develop national and cultural characteristics is part of the basic, inalienable rights of peoples and the individual, proclaimed in international legal acts and the national legislation of states.
