In an address to the Federal Assembly today Russian President Vladimir Putin said that inter-ethnic relations is the most important theme nowadays. "It is the confluence of many of our problems, many difficulties in socio-economic and territorial development, corruption, irregularities in the work of public institutions, and, of course, the failures of the educational and cultural policies. The conflict is provoked not by representatives of particular peoples, but by people deprived of culture and respect for tradition. It is some sort of immoral International, which includes insolent natives of some southern regions of Russia with bad morals as well as corrupt law enforcement officials who protect the ethnic mafia, and so-called Russian nationalists, separatists of a different kind that turn any tragedy into a cause for vandalism and bloody unrest." Vestnik Kavkaza was able to discuss the new government approach to national policy with the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.Vladimir Medina believes that Putin said not only the right but also the long-awaited words "about the dangers of an ill-conceived national policy, the probability of inter-ethnic conflicts and those extremes, to which the population recurs as well as, on the other hand, about the provoking behaviour of a number of representatives of nationalities arising from a lack of culture, as well as about extreme Russian nationalism." Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, in turn, said that Putin was brief, but straight to the point. "We, the leaders of the federal republics, have to work seriously with this speech. These are not just words."As previously reported by Vestnik Kavkaza, Ramzan Kadyrov commented on the address by saying that leaders of the federal constituencies of the Russian Federation should be responsible for natives of their regions living in other regions across Russia.In an address to the Federal Assembly today Russian President Vladimir Putin said that inter-ethnic relations is the most important theme nowadays. "It is the confluence of many of our problems, many difficulties in socio-economic and territorial development, corruption, irregularities in the work of public institutions, and, of course, the failures of the educational and cultural policies. The conflict is provoked not by representatives of particular peoples, but by people deprived of culture and respect for tradition. It is some sort of immoral International, which includes insolent natives of some southern regions of Russia with bad morals as well as corrupt law enforcement officials who protect the ethnic mafia, and so-called Russian nationalists, separatists of a different kind that turn any tragedy into a cause for vandalism and bloody unrest." Vestnik Kavkaza was able to discuss the new government approach to national policy with the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.
Vladimir Medina believes that Putin said not only the right but also the long-awaited words "about the dangers of an ill-conceived national policy, the probability of inter-ethnic conflicts and those extremes, to which the population recurs as well as, on the other hand, about the provoking behaviour of a number of representatives of nationalities arising from a lack of culture, as well as about extreme Russian nationalism."
Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, in turn, said that Putin was brief, but straight to the point. "We, the leaders of the federal republics, have to work seriously with this speech. These are not just words."
As previously reported by Vestnik Kavkaza, Ramzan Kadyrov commented on the address by saying that leaders of the federal constituencies of the Russian Federation should be responsible for natives of their regions living in other regions across Russia.
