Кубанское казачество как гарант стабильности межнациональных отношений на постсоветском пространстве

The problem of interethnic relations has now acquired special relevance in the post-Soviet space. The collapse of the Soviet Union into separate independent republics led some of them to internecine conflicts due to political, economic and cultural contradictions. In the last decade of the twentieth century, situations arose in the Russian Federation when internal and external destructive forces tried to incite ethnic strife among the citizens of the country. More than once, the state faced the threat of disintegration, but thanks to the wise policy of the Russian government and the decisive actions of law enforcement agencies, federal unity was preserved. The Kuban Cossacks also made a worthy contribution to the stability of interethnic relations. The author of the article gives examples of peacekeeping activities of the Kuban Cossack army in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries on the territory of southern Russia and parts of the republics of the post-Soviet space. Some genealogical and mental aspects of the international consciousness of the Kuban Cossacks are revealed, which became the motivational impulse of their service for the benefit of the unity of all citizens of the multinational Fatherland and good-neighborly relations with the peoples of neighboring republics.