Monitoring of Interethnic Interaction in the Republic: Assessment of Stability Factors by Experts and the Public

Modern challenges, threats and risks associated with accelerating migration flows, interethnic conflicts, facts of terrorism and extremism dictate the need for continuous monitoring of trends in the development of interethnic interaction in the Russian Federation. This is especially true for multiethnic regions. The article analyzes the data of a sociological research conducted in Buryatia in 20162019. It considers experts' and population's assessments of interethnic relations, prospects for their development, as well as the influence of ethnicity on vertical upward mobility opportunities. Factors that pose a threat to stable interethnic harmony in the region are identified; these include the deterioration of the socioeconomic situation in the country amidst the global economic crisis and sanctions, low living standards of the local population, the use of political technologies during election campaigns to politicize ethnicity and ethnic mobilization, the destructive influence of Internet communications which spread protest sentiments. The conclusion is made about the need to increase the level of the socioeconomic development of the republic, which is reflected in the citizens' quality of life, their social well-being and assessments of inter-ethnic relations. There is also the need to strengthen the potential of interethnic harmony in the republic as a resource for consolidating society, to prevent interethnic tensions, and to work more effectively and comprehensively in the educational sphere of the republic on creating an effective system of patriotic and international education.

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