Ethnic culture in the context of national self-determination of the Kabardian people

In article it is shown that the tectonic break generated by the crash of the USSR has turned back search of national identity not only at the former Soviet republics, but also at the small people of Russia. Today ethnoculture at Kabardians, as well as at other people of the North Caucasus, from externally folklore education as it was in the USSR, turns into a way of a statement of an originality of national spirit and history. But the emphasis not so much on reconstruction of elements of ethnoculture, a traditional way of life and ceremonial actions which are used as means for ethnonationalism how many on revival and updating of basic moral values of the people is important for national elite to keep political and cultural unity of Russia as federal state.