NATIONAL AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS OF XXI CENTURY

Abstract

Conflicts related to the contradiction between ethnonational interests play an "extremely important" role in our time. The nature of ethnonational conflicts follows from the nature of ethnic groups and nations as state-political, socio-economic and socio-cultural communities of people, complex, multilateral relations between them. This article is devoted to the study of ethnonational conflicts of our time. The article analyzes the types of multinational states, religious, socio-economic and geopolitical factors in ethnic conflicts.