Scientific Journal “Issues of National and Federative Relations”. Issue 4 (19). 2012.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
GREETINGS FROM PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN RUSTEM KHAMITOV
NATIONAL POLITICS, NATIONAL RELATIONS
REGIONAL POLICY AND FEDERATIVE RELATIONS
RELIGION AND ETHNO-POLITICS
CONFLICTS AND MIGRATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
NATIONAL POLITICS, NATIONAL RELATIONS
Yu.A. DEMYANENKO Ph.D. (sociology), Rector of Pskov State University Doctoral student in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and the Public Administration
ROLE OF THE ETHNIC FACTOR IN THE FEDERAL STRUCTURE OF RUSSIA
The article examines ethno-political features of the federal transformation of Russia and defines the role of ethnic federalism in the state-building of the country.
Key words: federalism, national republics, asymmetry, nation, ethnos, region, national identity, civil identity.
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
RUSSIA’S GOVERNMENT NATIONAL POLICY IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS
The article analyses the content and direction of development of the Russia’s government national policy in the Northern Caucasus, starting from 1990-s, focusing on its strong and weak aspects.
Key words: the Northern Caucasus, government national policy, national security, stability, lack of stability, effectiveness, management, federal districts, federal relations.
T.F. KAMYSHNIKOVA Senior Fellow, the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Management, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
A.A. GROSS student of the master’s degree program, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, Distance-Education University, Hagen, Germany
INTER-ETHNIC TOLERANCE AS A FACTOR OF POLITICAL STABILITY SOME ASPECTS OF FRIEND-FOE IDENTIFICATION AND DISPARITIES OF MENTAL AND GEOGRAPHIC BORDERS
In the article the authors analyze the issues of inter-ethnic tolerance and its influence on political stability. Material and ideal conditions of intolerance are being examined.
Key words: inter-ethnic tolerance, political stability, intolerance, patriotism, mental borders.
A.S. AKOPYAN junior fellow at the department for studying problems of political regionalistic and ethnopolitics of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Legal Problems, Ufa
M.S. AKOPYAN junior fellow at the department for studying problems of political regionalistic and ethnopolitics of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Legal Problems, Ufa
IN SEARCH OF NATIONAL IDEA FOR MODERN RUSSIA: EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC VIEWS
In the article the authors examine issues connected with the search of national idea in modern Russia and stress that societies today, just as in the past, need to identify and preserve their identity and uniqueness at the state and national levels and can do this only on the basis of peoples’ political, legal, social, economic and cultural self-determination. While studying this issue, the authors came to the conclusion that determination of the new identity under the present day conditions sets a double task of preserving national and cultural uniqueness while determining the scope of permissible integration into the world community. This is possible only under the condition of identity being expressed by the national idea.
Key words: nation, ideology, civilization, national culture, ethnos, primordialism, constructivism, identity, culture, symbol.
V.R. VALIULLIN Junior Fellow, Department for the Study of Regional Politics and Ethno-politics, Center for Political and Legal Research of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Issues, Ufa
TOLERATION AS A ETHNO-CULTURAL POLICY PRINCIPLE IN THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN
The article examines general theoretical aspects of toleration as a principle of cultural policy and specifies its regional dimensions, taking the Republic of Bashkortostan as an example.
Key words: toleration, cultural policy, culture, policy, ethnos, interethnic dialogue, regional political studies, ethno-politics, religious denominations.
R.R. KARIMOV candidate of the department of political science, sociology and philosophy at the Bashkir Academy of Public Service and Management under the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan
ON THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN THE REVIVAL OF ETHNIC SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
The article examines the role of mass media in the formation of ethno-cultural identity in the era of world globalization, as well as the phenomenon of ethnic revival.
Key words: identity, information, self-consciousness, ethnos, mass media, culture, globalization, regional policy.
REGIONAL POLICY AND FEDERATIVE RELATIONS
R.M. KANAPYANOVA D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
SUPRANATIONAL FORMS OF PUBLIC SELF-ORGANIZATION OF CITIZENS IN THE CIS MEMBER STATES: ETHNOCULTURAL ASPECT
In the article the author draws attention to the development of supranational forms of inter-government cooperation. Processes developing on the territory of the former USSR may be called a central plot of the today world politics. The institutionalization of inter-government structures, the appearance of powerful integration technologies and development of transnational corporations not only in the sphere of business, but also in the sphere of humanitarian structures have changed the approaches to the improvement of cultural ties, preservation of historic heritage of moral and spiritual values, friendship and solidarity among the peoples of the Commonwealth of Independent States, all of it despite many skeptic statements regarding CIS itself. During more than twenty years of its existence, CIS has succeeded not only in preserving historic peculiarities of this areal but in furthering development of efferent flows existing in the form of various structures aimed at inter-government cooperation. The today vector in the development of inter-government relations is characterized by the negation of stereotypes and a search for new modern approaches in the changing world.
Key words: self-organization, ethno-politics, ethno-cultural aspect, the CIS member states, cooperation, cultural ties, inter-government relations.
V.V. GAIDUK D.Sc. (political science), Ph.D. (law), Professor, Vice-President of the National Union of Political Scientists director of the department for studying problems of political regionalistic and ethnopolitics of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Legal Problems
TEMPORARINESS OF POWER INDEX AND ITS ROLE IN THE ETHNO-POLITICAL STABILITY OF RUSSIAN REGIONS
Can timeservers become effective political leaders or managers? Is the policy of Russian timeservers a challenge to democracy or an absence of an effective state policy? Recognition and political ratings of Russian timeservers. Ethnic colors of our contemporary timeservers. The article examines the above and many other problems of the fiscal and HR policy in today Russia. The article describes some patterns of the ethno-political stability in the development of Russian regions governed by timeservers.
Key words: power, temporariness of power, timeservers, regional political studies, ethno-politics, Russian regions, Siberia.
R.K. ISKUZHIN Ph.D. (law), Minister of Land and Property Relations of the Republic of Bashkortostan, merited lawyer of the republic, Corresponding Member of the RANS
LANGUAGE POLICY IN FEDERAL RUSSIA: EURASIAN CROSS-SECTION
Nowadays, when the Russian society is undergoing transformations and many values are being seriously re-assessed, the language becomes an important ethnic feature. The article analyses the government language policy in contemporary Russia and suggests some points aimed at the development of the government language policy based on global experience.
Key words: language, government policy, federalism, ethnos, self-consciousness, mechanism, marketing.
R.R. NASYROV junior fellow of the Centre for Political and Legal Studies of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Legal Problems, Ufa
LEGITIMATION OF POWER IN A POLYETHNIC STATE: BASED ON MAX WEBER’S THEORY
The article deals with the ethnic aspects of legitimation of political power in the post-Soviet states.
Key words: power, legitimation, ethnicity, violence, the USSR, self-justification, conflict, consensus.
V.I. VASILENKO D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
I.A. VOROSHILIN post-graduate student at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
INSTITUTION OF STATE SECRETS AS A MECHANISM GUARANTEEING RUSSIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY
The authors emphasize the significance of national security for life-sustaining activity of the Russian federative state and its citizens, and reveal the role of the institution of state secrets in its process of assurance.
Key words: state secret, institution, national security, facilitating mechanism, responsibility, state, citizens.
E.N. OZHIGANOV D.Sc. (philosophy), Professor, Sociology of Management Department, Institute of Public Administration and HR Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
INFORMATION OPERATIONS AND STABILITY OF POLITICAL REGIMES
The author examines such notions as political stability and information support operation. The article analyses factors influencing stability of political regimes and demonstrates basic goals of information support operations.
Key words: political regime, political stability, information operations, information technologies, sustainability of political and social order.
RELIGION AND ETHNO-POLITICS
I.Yu. GLINSKAYA D.Sc. (political science), Assistant Professor, Advertising and Business Communications Department, Institute of World Economy and Business of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
INTERACTION BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND CHURCH IN THE FORMATION OF RUSSIA’S IMAGE
The author analyses national image as a positive benchmark which Russia should aspire to reach in order to remain an economically strong, independent state with its own cultural and historic traditions, national self-conscience and spiritual development. The author comes to the conclusion that the contribution of the Orthodox Church is priceless during the time of hardship for the country when the true faith is being corroded by multiple sects that have recently appeared in its territory. In the author’s opinion, it is the Russian Orthodox Church that has been uniting and continues to unite most Russian citizens around traditional orthodox moral values.
Key words: image, state, religion, faith, interaction, patriotism, wellbeing, traditions, ideology, statesmanship.
M.Kh. MARDANOV Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan, post-graduate student at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
ROLE OF THE ISLAMIC FACTOR IN POLITICAL STABILITY OF RUSSIAN REPUBLICS: BASHKORTOSTAN’S EXAMPLE
The article examines issues connected with the development at the state level of mechanisms important for the preservation and strengthening of internal political stability in Russia. Today, further strengthening of unity and solidarity within the Islamic community can help Muslims to play a more authoritative role in the development of our multinational and multi-confessional country and its regions.
Key words: Islamic factor, ethnic factor, Russian regions, Islamic world, Muslims, intercultural interaction, Islam’s Russian model, ethno-political stability, ethno-politics, regional political studies, national and federative relations.
V.F. PRYAKHIN D.Sc. (political science), Club of Rome National Committee member
RELIGION AND MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
The Religion’s impact on mass consciousness could be hardly overestimated. The changes of social economic formations, the nation building and consolidation of social classes were tightly coupled with radical transformations in human beliefs. These transformations were adequately reflected by Religious philosophy and spiritual life of society. A good number of questions should be answered with regard to relatively weak and sometimes contradictory influence by clergy on ideology (Weltanschaung) of modern Man. The answers to these questions have been sought by the author of the article in the specific character of global historic process between the ХХ and ХХI centuries AD, in the so far unknown nature of information-technological revolution and in its impact on mass consciousness.
Key words: religion, science, syntheses of science and religion, technological revolution, globalization, mass consciousness, ideology, ethics, consumerism, secular and religious paradigms, Russian cosmism.
I.L. TRUNOV D.Sc. (law), Ph.D. (economics), Professor, National President of the World Association of Lawyers, Deputy Chairman of the International Union of Lawyers, Head of the Law Section of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, First Vice-President of the Federal Union of Defense Lawyers of Russia
ETHNO-RELIGIOUS TERRORISM IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS
The author analyses the problem of ethno-religious terrorism, identifies and examines reasons for the ethno-religious terrorism in Russia.
Key words: ethno-religious terrorism, Islam, Christianity, Northern Caucasus.
E.S. ARLYAPOVA Ph.D. (political science)
MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL OF ISLAM YESTERDAY AND TODAY
In the article the author analyses the issue of ethno-confessional conflictogenity of the post-Soviet area. In particular, the author examines mobilization potential of Islam in the Chechen Republic.
Key words: Islam, conflict, ethno-confessional tension, administration, the Northern Caucasus, the Chechen Republic.
Yu.S. BOICHENKO post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
THE INFLUENCE OF THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN THE ETHNIC-POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS FEDERAL DISTRICT
The author examines the influence of the religious factor in the ethnic-political situation in the North Caucasus Federal District using specific examples of several republics of the region. This article also focuses on the growth of religious consciousness among the population of the region and warns some risks of ill-conceived state policies in the field of interfaith relations.
Key words: religious factor, ethnic-political situation, interfaith relations.
A.A. AMIANTOV Ph.D. (political science), Teaching Fellow Department of Political Science Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
ACTIVITIES OF FACTIONS OF POLITICAL PARTIES REPRESENTED IN THE STATE DUMA AIMED AT STABILIZING NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS RELATIONS IN TODAY RUSSIA
The article examines political and legislative activities of the parliamentary factions of political parties aimed at stabilizing national and religious relations in today Russia. The article quotes regulatory acts of the State Duma representing the results of joint inter-faction drafting of laws regulating national and religious relations in the Russian Federation
Key words: State Duma, parliament, faction, political party, national and religious relations, feelings of believers, administrative and criminal liability.
CONFLICTS AND MIGRATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
SARGON KHAIDAYA Post-graduate student of the Department of political sciences of the Russian Peoples` Friendship University
MODERNIZATION AND STABILITY OF POLITICAL REGIME: SYRIA’S EXAMPLE
In the article the author examines the influence of modernization on the stability of political regimes in the Arab states, in Syria in particular.
Key words: modernization, power, political regime, stability, management, authoritarianism, authoritarian modernization, Syria.
M.Kh. YUSUPOV deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation VI convocation
ILLEGAL MIGRATION IN THE POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: ETHNO-POLITICAL SYNDROME
Two types of migration can be distinguished on the grounds of legitimacy: legal and illegal migration. The article provides political and legal analysis of illegal migration in the Russian Federation and proposes specific measures for the resolution of the migration problems.
Key words: illegal migration, non-documented migration, unaccounted for migration, European Union, the Russian Federation, visa-free regime, borders, employment assistance.
V.S. TSYRULNIKOV post-graduate student at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF MODERN INTEGRATION OF ETHNIC IMMIGRANT WORKERS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES: LESSONS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
The shortage of labour force in the dynamically developing countries of the West has led to the growth of international labour migration, ethnodemographic structure change, the need to arrange the process of social adaptation and integration of ethnic migrants.
Key words: international labour migration, multiculturalism, ethnic and confessional isolation, ethnodemographic structure of the society.