Sergey Mironov and his colleagues in the commission decided to take control over elaboration of the national policy concept.
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National Policy Translated into Russian
Russia’s Regional Development Minister Vladimir Yakovlev presented yesterday a revised draft of the State National Policy Concept. The basic difference of new wording is the absence of “consolidating role of the Russian nation.”
Yesterday, Regional Development Minister Vladimir Yakovlev presented the revised State National Policy Concept to the Federation Council’s Joint Commission on National Policy, which unites senators and parliaments’ speakers of Russia’s national constituents.
The previous concept was passed far back in 1996 and President Vladimir Putin ordered to redraft it in 2002. But the first variant that emerged past fall was rebuffed by the regions mostly because of establishing “the united multinational society with consolidating role of the Russian nation.”
So, the new wording spells out no consolidating authority for the Russians, confining to “the uniting role.” Moreover, the masterminds took into consideration some new features of today’s life, having added “opposing extremism and xenophobia” and “paying attention to peculiarities of culture and traditions of peoples of Russia in educational work in the military units.”
But no law would work without “financial basis of the state national policy,” Yakovlev said, adding that funding the national policy should be separately specified in the budget and a special federal service should be created at the Regional Development Ministry.
In the end, the commission resolved to set up a taskforce of senators and officials of the Regional Development Ministry to perfect the concept “by focusing on strategy and ideology of multinational relations in Russia.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 23, 2006
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