У статті проаналізовано аргументи прибічників та контраргументи опонентів ранньосередньовічної концепції україногенези.
This article is devoted to problems of genesis of Ukrainian nationality. The last one arose in Early Middle
Age as well as most big nations of Europe (French, English, German, Polish, Serbian, Szechuan, Croatian
etc). Late Middle Age version of origin of Ukrainians, Russians and Byelorussia’s is soviet version of very
old empire historical myth. It disagrees with norms of modern ethnology and has formed after the Second
World War as a typical soviet ideology structure.