Modern Russian identity from the perspective of the discursive metaphors

The topicality of the theme is caused by the social significance of designing, based on the patriotism of the Russian national identity, the complex concept, associated with the history, the political ideology and the goals of the state. The implementation of the concept is implemented through a great number of the discursive practices, that mostly are based on the discursive metaphors as the cognitive mechanism, used for the explanation of the Russian identity.