26.10.2024
On October 25, 2024, as part of the All-Russian Conference "Russia: Unity and Diversity in the Context of Global Transformations", held at RSUH, experts and scholars discussed issues in the field of interethnic relations, national and migration policies.
The conference participants were welcomed by the Acting Rector of RSUH Andrei Loginov, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeev. Chief Advisor of the Department of National Policy of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for Domestic Policy Sergei Baakh read out the text of the address of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Magomedsalam Magomedov, in which it was noted that strengthening the unity of the multinational people of Russia, preserving the ethnocultural and linguistic diversity of the country, ensuring interethnic peace and harmony in society contributed to the formation of the fundamental foundations of Russian statehood.
"The President of the Russian Federation tasked us with developing a new Strategy for State National Policy for the period up to 2036, and, undoubtedly, this process is impossible without high-quality academic and expert support. RSUH, along with other academic centers of our country, is making a significant contribution in this direction,” the address says.
In his speech, Andrei Loginov emphasized the special importance of issues related to interethnic and ethnocultural relations, and to strengthening the all-Russian civil identity.
“All relations, all thoughts and ideas that grow out of national soil have enormous creative potential, which has enriched and will continue to enrich humanity. And if we take on such a difficult task of influencing and harmonizing these relations, then we must help reduce the number of conflicts arising on national soil and, conversely, attain the fullest possible manifestation of the powerful creative potential inherent in these relations, which enriches the spiritual and material life of the peoples of our country, contributes to the strengthening of our state,” he noted.
During the plenary session, the following leading experts in the field of interethnic relations and migration policy addressed the audience: member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of the Miklouho-Maclay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Interethnic Relations, Director of the Center for Social Anthropology at RSUH Valery Tishkov, Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on Interethnic, Interreligious Relations and Migration Vladimir Zorin, Director of the Center for Socio-political Research and Information Technologies at RSUH, Magomed Omarov, Chair of the Department of Ethnopolitical Science at the St. Petersburg State University Valery Achkasov, Head of the Ethnography Sector at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Shabaev, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Demographic Sciences of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Tatyana Yudina. More than 80 experts and scholars took part in the work of the sections, discussing state and prospects of interethnic relations in our country, traditional spiritual and moral values of the peoples of Russia as the basis of the country's civilizational code.
Scholars and government officials discussed the economic, legal, social, demographic and statistical aspects of migration policy in the country and the world at the section "Migration Policy in Russia: Internal and External Challenges and Threats".
