Russian people and national policy in the Republic of Dagestan
The article deals with the study of the multi-factor problem, concerning the role of the autochthonous Russian people in the interethnic and integration processes relevant for the Republic of Dagestan and Russian Federation as a whole. The analysis of the reasons for mass departure of the Russia people from Dagestan, gave grounds to define the true reasons of negative processes in these spheres. Having determined the priorities of the Strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 as a methodological basis for the study of the problem raised in the article, the author managed to reveal the historically positive role of the Russian people not only on the socio-economic development of Dagestan, but also on the all-Russian integration processes. None of the numerous Dagestan nationalities can perform these functions. The article shows the uniting activity of the Russian population of the Republic, which brought interethnic peace, progress and integration into the Russian socio-economic, cultural and political space. The dynamics of the quantitative composition of Russians in the Republic and its connection with the socio-economic development of Dagestan are traced. The negative socio-political, economic, legal processes, objective and subjective factors that led to a sharp decrease in the socio-political status of the Russian population, which caused its mass outflow from Dagestan, are also analyzed. This state of affairs in this matter is considered by the author as a result of many years of activity of the Dagestan leadership. The paper also substantiates the impossibility, without the active participation of this segment of the social structure of Russian society, the formation of the autochthonous peoples of the Republic and the Russian Federation as a whole, the all-Russian civil consciousness, based on meaningful images of a common historical, socio-political destiny.