Putin approves national policy strategy

The Kremlin has approved the strategy of state national policy and will be under public discussions. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a related order on August 25, Kommersant reports.

Vadim Martynov, the chief advisor of the president’s directorate for home policy, approved the document. He said that regions will have about 40 discussions of the document.

Former ministers for nationalities Valery Tishkov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylov, Vladimir Zorin, Ramazan Abdulatipov and officials of the Presidential Administration and government worked on the document.

Its authors say that negative factors of the Soviet national policy and weakening of state in the 1990s provoked ethnic mobilization, separatism and extremism.

Zorin said that the previous concept of national policy was passed in 1996 to combat regional sovereignty. The new challenges are global economic crisis, globalization, international terrorism, religious extremism, migration problems.