The Mordovian ethnonational idea before and now

In article it is said that the idea of a priority obsemordovskogo ethnic consciousness over erzanskim and moksanskim subethnic consciousness ascends the sources to antiquity for Mordvа is one of arhogeneticeskih the people of the Euroasian continent. Gained by centuries, idea of unity Mordvin as people (ethnos) with preservation at subethnic level of its binarity (in a kind moksha and erzi) should remain and until now, without contradicting idea of unity of Russia as multi-ethnic units a federative state.