Positive communications as a factor of strengthening inter-ethnic and interreligious relations within multicultural Russian community
The article examines the key points of the reports and speeches taken place on the 25th-27th September 2014 in Kazan in the All-Russian scientific and practical Conference "The positive experience of monitoring and control processes of ethno-social and ethno-cultural regions of the Russian Federation." Special attention is paid to the results of the scientific research, which was reported by the representatives of the Presidential Academy - the Department of public rela tions and media policy and the Department of political science and political management. The ar- ticle highlights the topicality of the issues of the discussion, the role of state and municipal author- ities in the sphere of interethnic and inter-confessional relations, as well as leaders of religious communities in Russia in the strengthening civic identity in the context of innovative development of Russian society. The author agrees that the task of the state national policy Strategy in the Russ- ian Federation, can be carried out in close cooperation between state and municipal bodies with different social and political forces and taking into account the specific conditions of the local multi- ethnic and multi-religious communities