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The aim of the paper is an analysis of the content of Polish opinion-forming weekly magazines in order to find the answer to the following question: ‘On the basis of what facts the journalists relate to the Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish identity with regard to the scope of the notion of the European identity?’ The author also wanted to find out what, according to the journalists, is the background of that discussion and what is its interpretation paradigm. To reconstruct the story about the identity measures, the author made use of selected press materials. A discourse analysis was applied consisting in recreation and description of three national identity types redefining one another, in weekly magazines, with reference to the European identity, preserving at the same time a uniform character of the source materials. Owing to the text formal limitations, the analysis of the press issues was subordinated to certain generalization, maintaining, however, the research integrity and due diligence.