Scientific Journal “Issues of National and Federative Relations”
Issue 1 (24), 2014
CONTENTS
NATIONAL POLICY AND INTERETHNIC RELATIONS
- Kalinina K.V. On the Status of Russians in Russia
- Beisenbin K.A. Topical issues in the development of interethnic relations under Russia’s contemporary conditions
- Radchenko A.F. On the question of preservation and maintaining harmony in interethnic relations
- Kosikov I.G. Federal Centre and the Chechen Republic: topical issues of cooperation. Part III
- Ozierski P. Crimean tatars: Challenges of the Past and the Future
POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS
- Medvedev N.P. Ethno-political consensus: On the issue of conflict in the South-East of Ukraine
- Kirchanov M.V. Georgian Nationalism: tradionalist turn (ideological transformations in the 2013)
- Parfenova S.R. Specifics of transition to other forms of democracy in the former Soviet Union
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN FORMATION OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
- Boltenkova L.F., Smirnova S.K. Forms of Educational Work among Youth in Russia
- Nigmatullina T.A. Political Interpretation of Ethnoxenophobia in the Youth Environment: New Challenges of Globalization
- Vasilenko V.I., Shtanyko M.Yu. Basic trends in the perfection of ruling body’s activities in migration management in the region (Moscow region as an example)
- Gayduk V.V., Suleymanov A.R. Migration specifics of contemporary ethnic conflicts
- Abdulaev A.Kh. Perfection of regulatory system for countering corruption in the Republic of Dagestan
- Vysotsky A.V. Political mediation in elite dimension: Institute of “balance of power”
NATIONAL POLICY AND INTERETHNIC RELATIONS
K.V. KALININA D.Sc. (law) Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
ON THE STATUS OF RUSSIANS IN RUSSIA
Political and social status of the Russian people has been formed through centuries. It has a versatile definition. It was specified in V.V.Putin’s speeches and articles, in the Strategy of the State National Policy of the Russian Federation for the period up to the year 2025.
Key words: status, Russian people, people of Russia, state forming nation, constituent, Eurasian civilization, civilizational code.
K.A. BEISENBIN Associated Professor at the department of state and municipal management of the Smolensk division of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
TOPICAL ISSUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERETHNIC RELATIONS UNDER RUSSIA’S CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS
The article analyses the provisions in the strategy of state national policy of the Russian Federation for a time period of up to 2025 and examines contemporary tendencies in the development of interethnic relations under the conditions of democratic reforms.
Key words: interethnic relations, originality, democracy, ideology, tolerance, multiculturalism, rights.
A.F. RADCHENKO PhD (political sciences), working for the doctorate degree at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
ON THE QUESTION OF PRESERVATION AND MAINTAINING HARMONY IN INTERETHNIC RELATIONS
In the past 20 years, the issues of population, nations and nationalities, as well as the problems, which are closely linked to them, of migrants, their adaptation and their perception by the titular nation have sharply come up. The intensity of migration movements has sharply increased, and migration has turned into a crucial resource in economic development of many countries. The author answers the key question. How to build a system of education in line with the contemporary understanding of the Russian identity? By lodging a claim to the education system concerning the patriotic education and honouring the natives, as well as other people without determining the basic concepts at the same time, we dilute the process of education because it is very difficult to demand from people so that they act in line with rules, which have not been formulated yet.
Key words: Russian identity, education system, migrants.
I.G. KOSIKOV D.Sc. (history), Professor, Chief Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Expert of the working group on Northern Caucasus of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, member of the Council of the Peacemaking Mission to the Northern Caucasus
FEDERAL CENTRE AND THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC: TOPICAL ISSUES OF COOPERATION
PART III
In the article the author continues a detailed examination of relations between Moscow and Grozny during the period of post-conflict settlement and further development of the Chechen Republic within the Russian Federation (from 2000 to 2013). By generalizing multiple and different sources, including his own on-the-field researches made in the Northern Caucasus republics, the author presents an analysis of the policy of the Centre in respect of the Chechen Republic. It includes: the role of the federal bodies of power in reestablishing republican bodies of power (legislative, executive and judicial branches of power); building of the economic and financial assistance to the Chechen Republic, staffing decisions of the Centre “regarding Chechnya”, and others. The article contains expert evaluation of “pain points” in the relations between the Centre and the Chechen Republic.
Key words: federative relations, policy of the Centre in the Northern Caucasus, the Chechen Republic, post-conflict settlement, elections, Constitution of the Chechen Republic, consolidation of the regions, bringing of the regional legislation in accordance with the federal legislation, economic recovery of Chechnya.
P.OZIERSKI working for a Ph.D. degree at the chair of the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
CRIMEAN TATARS: CHALLENGES OF THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
The article gives an overview of the main challenges for the development of the Crimean Tatar people. The author tries to denounce the myth of betrayal built as the argument for deportation, and still having influence on public opinion. Furthermore, it describes problems associated with the return of the Tatars to their ethnic homeland during the existence of the Soviet Union, and then in Crimea as part of Ukraine. In conclusion, the author discusses chance of the revival of the Crimean Tatar people associated with the return of Crimea to Russia.
Key words: Crimea, Crimean Tatar, deportation, ethnic homeland, genocide, rehabilitation.
POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS
N.P. MEDVEDEV D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President and the at the Peoples’ Friendship University
ETHNO-POLITICAL CONSENSUS: ON THE ISSUE OF CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH-EAST OF UKRAINE
The article examines the problem of consensus in the resolution of geopolitical conflicts in the former Soviet Union. It reveals the specifics of the influence of the ethnic factor on political crises in the context of the developments in Ukraine’s south-eastern regions.
Key words: ethnic and political conflict, ethnic and political consensus, negotiations, political stability, ethnic factor.
M.V. KIRCHANOV D.Sc (history), assistant professor Chair of Regional Studies and foreign countries economies Voronezh State Univеrsity
GEORGIAN NATIONALISM: TRADIONALIST TURN (ideological transformations in the 2013)
The author analyzes traditional trends in contemporary Georgian nationalism ideology. The author presumes that Georgian nationalism has developed political tradition and develop as primarily civic movement. Georgian Orthodox Church develops traditional forms of Georgian identity. Activation of sexual minorities in May 2013 assisted to actualization of traditional trends in Georgian nationalism. Polarization and fragmentation of the Georgian nationalism was a result of political debates related to the role of Georgia in the region and problems of Georgian-Russian relations.
Key words: Georgia, nationalism, identity, civic nationalism, traditionalism, Georgian Orthodox Church.
S.R. PARFENOVA Ph.D. (law), assistant professor at the state law chair of the Bashkir State University
SPECIFICS OF TRANSITION TO OTHER FORMS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
The article examines several problems in the transition of one political system to other forms of democracy. According to the author, a concrete context forms its political solution for each territory, as a consequence of its political processes leading to heteromorphic democracy. The author believes that the influence of political factors on mass consciousness and people’s value orientation, which exerts definite influence on their political behavior, is the result of social and political technology used by the authorities in political processes leading to, as they believe, a civil society and law-governed state. By doing so, political authority has forged political changes peculiar to it on its own territory.
Key words: political processes, former Soviet republics, heteromorphic democracy, socio-cultural mentality, liberal democracy, institutionalization, political conflict, transition, personified rule, transaction.
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN FORMATION OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
L.F. BOLTENKOVA D.Sc. (law), Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
S.K. SMIRNOVA D.Sc. (political sciences), professor, Chairwoman of the Council of the Peoples of Russia Assembly
FORMS OF EDUCATIONAL WORK AMONG YOUTH IN RUSSIA
In the present article, after generalizing the existing practice, analysing legislation and scientific literature, forms of educational work among the youth in Russia are described.
Key words: forms, education, youth.
Т.А. NIGMATULLINA Ph.D. (history), Associate Professor Director of Bashkir Institute of Social Technologies
POLITICAL INTERPRETATION OF ETHNOXENOPHOBIA IN THE YOUTH ENVIRONMENT: NEW CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION
In the conditions of globalization the state needs formation of policy of opposition to the negative tendencies in the sphere of international and interethnic relations, including the ones in the youth environment. However, the development of such program demands scientific and theoretical bases, including the knowledge of the nature of the phenomenon of ethnic xenophobia, the reasons and nature of its dissemination in the Russian society. Institutional features of ethnoxenophobia in the youth environment are investigated in this article.
Key words: political science, youth, ethnoxenophobia, globalization, migrantophobia, crisis, sinophobia.
V.I. VASILENKO D.Sc. (political sciences), professor, Deputy Head of the Chair of the Russian Statehood, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
M.Yu. SHTANYKO post-graduate student, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
BASIC TRENDS IN THE PERFECTION OF RULING BODY’S ACTIVITIES IN MIGRATION MANAGEMENT IN THE REGION (MOSCOW REGION AS AN EXAMPLE)
The implementation of the migration policy is a complex task that demands for the coordination of all ruling bodies. The management of migration flows is an indispensable attribute and basic element in state policy. In the article, authors analyze factors that affect the migration situation in the Moscow region. They examine migration flows in the Moscow region as a display of the region’s economic situation. They also examine the problems of granting government services in the migration area and some topical issues in fighting illegal immigration. They formulate proposals for the perfection of the ruling body’s activities in migration management in the region.
Key words: migration, migration flows, implementation of the migration policy, illegal migration, management, political and sociological analysis, process.
V.V. GAYDUK D.Sc (political sciences), Ph.D. (law), professor, head of the chair of politology and history of the Bashkir State University
A.R. SULEYMANOV Ph.D. (political sciences), working for the doctorate degree at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
MIGRATION SPECIFICS OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC CONFLICTS
The study of migration process in Russia is becoming an urgent issue in the system of contemporary conflict management. By the virtue of fact that under the conditions of globalization transformations, economic borders between states disappear and the character of migration processes changes. The excessive presence of migrants in the Russian Federation not only worsens interethnic contradictions in the country but also determines a new vector in institutionalization of ethnic conflicts in its regions. The article examines migration specifics in ethnic conflicts in contemporary Russia, which have acquired new ethno-political and ethno-cultural “colours”.
Key words: ethnic conflict, migration, social tension, globalization, political region studies, ethno-politics, migrants.
A.Kh. ABDULAEV post-graduate student at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration head of department of education of the Khasavyurt district
PERFECTION OF REGULATORY SYSTEM FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN
The article studies political and legal basis for countering corruption in the Republic of Dagestan and measures that are being taken to meet the demands for official behavior of civil servants in the republic.
Key words: anti-corruption activity, legislation of Russian Federation and Republic of Dagestan, civil service, official behavior.
A.V. VYSOTSKY Ph.D. (political science), member of the Eurasian Politological Expert Club
POLITICAL MEDIATION IN ELITE DIMENSION: INSTITUTE OF “BALANCE OF POWER”
The study of mediation as political practice, which occupies a niche in the society’s elite life, fully meets the demands of contemporary politics in the apprehension of issues linked to the necessity for the perception of mechanisms of mediative intercommunication which help to shift from confrontation to cooperation. The article is aimed at outlining only the general vector in the elite range of problems and possibly, opening up new horizons for carrying out further research work in the political conflict management area.
Key words: political mediation, elite, conflict, federalism, discussion, arguments, confrontation, dialogue.