Interaction of State Authorities with National and Religious Associations in the Conditions of Cross-border Monoethnic Region
The author proceeds from the fact that interethnic relations are one of the most difficult and relevant topics for discussion. In the conditions when the Kursk region is a ‘losing' territory, since the number of departing from the territory exceeds the number of arriving from other subjects of Russia and other countries, only international migration with the CIS member states has a positive balance. According to the authors, such ethnic migration processes contribute to the ethnic and cultural fragmentation of the regional community. Today in the Kursk region there is no clearly conflict situation in the sphere of interethnic and interfaith relations, which however does not remove the relevance of pursuing the corresponding national policy aimed at establishing relations. Today, the largest diasporas in the region are Ukrainian, Armenian, Moldavian, Polish. The interaction on interethnic and interconfessional issues is based two active sites: (1) discussion platform with the participation of ethnic leaders and representatives of religious organizations; (2) expert platform - commission on interethnic relations of the Kursk region.