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Nationalism is a problem that has been a longtime political issue in the West, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining a nation-state's interest. It has also raised a semantical and translation problem among other terms which were closely linked each other; state, nation, country, government, people etc. Often combined with the Western's attacking ideologies on Russia, Putin has been blamed for his nationalism, misunderstood by the Western themselves. This study inquired into the semantical categories of nationalism by analyzing his speeches to catch up on what kind of semantical terms his own nationalism is composed of. A content analysis was applied on them, as the method which could sampled some semantical units contained in his speech The results showed as following: 1) Putin's nationalism was linked with the notion of family and economy comprising that country. 2) His notions of the state and the government were used as an instrument for the nation and the country. 3) His notion of Russia was used as an objective one but with sovereignty. Under consideration for these results, his nationalism would be more properly translated.