Some features of nationalism in the North Caucasus

The article attempts to analyze some features of nationalism in the North Caucasus, which in Russian political science still have not received proper coverage. At the same time, the main attention is concentrated on indigenous peoples, whose specificity of this phenomenon is manifested especially clearly. The author gives an analysis of the main factors and levels of formation of their ethno-cultural identity, which is reflected in their national self-consciousness and socio-political attitudes and gives a proper place to the ethnic political and civil component of nationalism, both its positive and negative manifestations with examples of its politicization and the phenomenon of the sovereign parade.