The Impact of Myth Consciousness on the Formation of the National Political and Cultural Space: “Ukraine is not Russia”

The articles researches the concept of political culture as a system inherited notions expressed in symbolic forms and generalizes differences between Ukrainians Russians. It stresses that cultural identity Ukraine is established on one its basic tendencies – penchant for archaization all forms; it place heroic myth this process; analyzes sacral projections through which subject-and-object order Ukrainian politics world explained. Thus, pattern monomyth (a structured ontological range symbols) serves program reality (as objects). symbols have significance because they present an idea order, stability, forecastability (the latter lacking crisis context development) when there unwillingness part citizens to bear responsibility prospects future development events country conditions long-term uncertainty. article peculiarities how structure-image hero builds constitution Russia.