Abstract. The author tries to understand what our homeland will be like in the future – whether it will remain a civilian Russian-speaking state of the “Lukashenka type”, will it be absorbed by aggressive Russia, or will Belarusians finally be able to realize the national idea? The latter is being sought, but so far it has not even been clearly defined. Based on an analysis of the theory and practice of nation-building the form and content of the nation-state are discussed, unacceptable options for the existence of the Belarusian state, as well as the possibility of implementing the idea of ​​an “Eastern Switzerland” for Belarus, no matter how utopian it may seem to many.

Categories: Асьвета, Гісторыя, Зьнешнія адносіны, Мараль, Нацыя, Нацыя Беларусы