Shymchenko L. Public authentication of person as the factor of forming of Ukrainian political nation

The theses explained that the main determinates of forming citizen identity of a person are his/her competence, responsibility, freedom, dignity, moral independence, associating oneself as a citizen, activity and privacy of personal life. The analyses of the functional specifics of the citizen identity in cognitive, communicative, emotional, compensational, ideological and instrumental directions enabled to regard the identification practices as a dynamic, multidirectional process which depends on the quality of the core living structures of the society. It was also shown that the combination of ethnic-and-cultural pluralism and all-citizen equality in the process of nation-building is the dominant of consolidation of the Ukrainian political nation and state security.