Peoples are aware of themselves, looking at each other like mirrors. The book of journalism by Lev Anninsky is devoted to the place of Russia and Russians in the changing modern world, the relationship between the peoples of the near abroad after the collapse of the USSR and acute issues of current interethnic interaction. Ahead of us is the emergence of new peoples in this territory of the USSR. Which of them will be called Russian is, I will tell you, an open question. The Russians will be those who want to call themselves that and will defend this name among others...