The article considers Russian discourse of sovereignization. The necessity to approach to the understanding of questions of expediency and possibility to retain or reduce state sovereignty is regarded as one of urgent tasks confronting the Russian political class and the country’s community of researchers in the field of political science. Processes of sovereignization and desovereignization are the object of research in the article, and the subject of analysis is constituted by discursive strategies determining modern mind’s “reading” of the concept of sovereignty. The whole complex of discursive strategies is regarded as a discursive practice.