Crimean Regional Identity as a Resource for the Legitimation of Reunifi cation with Russia

The article is devoted to identifying trends in the development of Crimean regional identity as resource for the
legitimation of reunifi cation of Crimea with Russia. Actuality of this theme: policy of national identity’s construction
is important in regional community, does not deny the particular partial identities, however integrating and matching
them together.
Methodological basis of this article – social constructivism. Structural-functional approach, comparative analysis,
a secondary analysis of sociological data are realised.
As a result, the study proved that the regional community of Crimea is plural, segmented into Russian,
Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities. Russian identity of Crimeans fi rmly integrate into the “big” Russian identity.