Inter-race as an expression of law of the ukrainian people to own their national identity and statehood (last quarter XVI – first half XVII centuries)
Inter-confessional factor is seen as a form of social and political struggle of contemporary intellectuals for defending the rights of the Ukrainian people for their national identity and national statehood. It is noted that during the polemic fighting the concept "Rus" (that is- Ukrainian) and "Orthodoxy" acquire the same meaning. There is an opinion that the idea of the rule in the Ukrainian society of the spiritual power -of power of the Orthodox Church was only possible in conditions of contemporary form of the national state.