Ethnos and nation as categories of national security of Russia

The article gives the difference between nationalism, which is derived from the political concept of a nation, ethnic nationalism as the reference community, and Nazism as ideology, policy and practice of the dominant ethnos in the state, which are expressed not only in provision preferences by means of other participants of social interaction, but in the violent method of reducing the status of certain ethnic groups in the social hierarchy, even to the extent of the practice of genocide.