The article written on the Copenhagen School methodology is devoted to analysis structural foundations of societal conflicts in Central Asian countries. The societal dimension of any conflict appear when a large identity group or its particular members determine something as a threat to their survival as a community and start to act in proper way. Main nodal points of societal conflicts in the region are identifications connected with understanding what are the state, the nation, and the government. The article argues that the nation is considered through the prism of the titular nation [ethnos] concept and government stands as transcendent actor [subject] relative to the state and nation. The events in the southern Kyrgyzstan [Osh and Jalal-Abad oblasts] happened in June 2010 is used as a most illustrative case of societal conflicts in Central Asia. There was indicated the conflict based on contraposition of the titular nation [the Kyrgyz] and marginalized non-titular ethnic groups [the Uzbeks in this case] who are positioned as ``the Others`` posing unquestionable threat to Kyrgyz statehood due to either their separatist sentiment or aspiration to become included into Kyrgyz government structures.