A Discursive Explanation of the Conflict between Chechnyan Ethnical Identity and Nationalism and Russian Nationalism and Identity

Post-Soviet Russia still does not have sufficiently strong government and therefore، ethnical and security threats have put Russian society in danger of disintegration and collapse. The main question of this paper is how Russian and Chechnyan identity and nationalism have distinguished and defined their distinction? This Paper claims that in the conflict with ethnic nationalism، Russian nationalism uses Slav myths and Orthodox religion in order to represent non-Slavic ethnicities and Muslims as fundamentalists and separatists and in fact، both sides define their identity by referring to threatening and security implications (Russia) and ethnical implications (Chechnya). This article tries to show that this representation of the other as separatist and Slavic-Orthodox myths are identity based، and according to a modeling metaphor that corresponds to both Russian and Chechnyan metaphor schema. The method used in this paper، is the discourse analysis method.