I am Russian not by birth or nationality, but by spiritual essence

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You know, when the famous Russian fighter, former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov publicly renounced his “Russianness” perceiving this as an offense, at first I simply waved my hand, but then I realized that I still had to speak out, since in many ways this is a personal story for me.

Let me remind you that Khabi was offended by Russia because, in his words, if something bad happens, they will definitely say it’s the Caucasian’s fault, and if something good happens, then the Russian is good, and so it was this alleged injustice that prompted Nurmagomedov to break with Russia.

As I am physically a person with pronounced ethnic characteristics, since childhood, I have had my dissimilarity shoved in my face, in one way or another. You know, this is very offensive, if you want a person to hate you for the rest of his life, insult his nationality. Psychologists will clearly say that this is such a basic feature of the human race.

It was not for nothing that the Lord God divided us into ethnic groups - from a genetic point of view, this is the basis for the survival of our population - the melting pot produces a more physically viable population, and more talented by the way.

When external enemies tried to disperse Russia into national enclaves, they, among other things, undermined our common physical health as a large community.

There was a period in my life when I tried to find a better refuge for my nationality - I settled in Bashkortostan, then in Tatarstan. But you know, what’s surprising is that I, a person with nominally Tatar and indirectly Bashkir roots, did not feel comfortable there.

I felt good in Moscow. The determining factor was language - I thought in Russian, and I wrote in Russian. Russian has always been my native language; I lived in the spiritual environment that I received thanks to my knowledge of Russian.

One day I wondered why there was such a contradiction - as if they were telling me (they told us all this then) that my nationality should be determined by physical signs, but I stubbornly, despite insults, rabid propaganda, identify myself as Russian through this spiritual dimension. Like Pushkin, Karamzin, Yusupov, Rurikovich, and other thousands of ancestors who rejected the dominance of the physical and recognized the priority of the spiritual.

Over the years, the understanding has come that Russia is not a specific country, it is a civilization. The physical shell in which you merge into it does not matter. This is what our Lord God intended. This, by the way, is confirmed by science.

Jews are considered one of the most ethnically colored peoples - they declared a national priority at the state level. However, genetic studies show that specific Israeli Jews have so much mixed in them that it is easier to recognize Jewry as a spiritual community than to worry about blood purity.

If we talk about me, then on the maternal side I am a teptyar (from the Tatar word "notebook") - in Russian this is the name for immigrants who were brought to Bashkiria and recorded in a notebook. According to one version, I'm from Udmurtia, and according to another, I'm from Karelia. Oh wow.

For paternal it’s more unusual: we come, let’s say, from the middle command level of those same Tatar regiments. In this environment, it was generally considered bad manners to marry fellow villagers - the wife had to be brought from far away, for example, from France, Poland, and God knows where else. It turns out that the deeper you dive, the more the physical foundation fragments and crumbles, becoming elusive, but the spiritual holds it all together at a core.

If Khabib has now taken the path of identifying himself through the physical component, he will not be able to stop at the community of Caucasians; sooner or later he will have to go lower. Deeper. It is unknown what we will have when we get to the bottom of it!

In the Caucasus, this is very fraught; remember, as soon as the spiritual community “Soviet man” left this region, the era of wars immediately began, and even before the USSR, an era of wars lasted until the spiritual community of “Russian” came with the Russian Empire.

She, this same Russia, which Khabib was offended by, put an end to the mutual extermination of Caucasian ethnic groups for many centuries.

There are several historical examples, but we will give just one of them:

The Georgians were practically exterminated by the Turks until Russia came and saved this ethnic group.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia actively engaged in self-destruction. It was plunged into internal conflicts, and even ended up provoking Russia.

While power struggle is ongoing in Tbilisi, deep Georgia will continue to eke out a miserable existence, turning before our eyes not even into the outskirts of the world, but into a complete wasteland, useless and abandoned. They will fight for a couple more years. They will continue to feel offended by Russia, and the last Russian tourists will stop coming.

This is the story, and it all started with banal grievances of Georgians against Russia. Khabib needs to understand this if he has taken this path. Therefore, for me personally, identifying myself through resentment towards Russia, like Khabib, is too much of a crutch. Of course, when another bastard tries to insult me, I get angry, but I’m not offended by Russia, because I know that I otherwise risk remaining a person without a clan or tribe. I am once and for all a Russian journalist and writer. No matter what anyone says.