The article analyzes the main publications on ethnopolitical problems in the “Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science”. The first articles on the actual theme at that time were appeared in the beginning of the 1990s. The reviewed materials represent the main approaches of Russian scholars to the analysis of ethnopolitical problems and the range of issues related to them. In the context of these data, one can state a tendency towards the analysis of ethnopolitical processes in the focus of conscious and mental phenomena. This trend has been embodied in the use of the concepts of “mentality” and “identity”. At the same time, we have to state that the theoretical aspects of ethno-political science are still insuffi ciently developed.