IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO ETHNO-CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE MULTI-ETHNIC REGION (on the materials of the Komi Republic)

Alexander A. Popov

DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-4-77-83

Key words

constitutional right, multi-ethnicity, ethnoculture, the Komi Republic

Annotation

The article analyzes the process of enforcing the peoples’ constitutional right to ethno-cultural identity, which is especially relevant in the conditions of multinationality and polyethnicity of the Russian Federation. The Constitution of our country guarantees the ethno-cultural development of the peoples of Russia. The choice of the study region is due to the fact that the Komi Republic is one of the most multi-ethnic national-territorial entities within the Russian Federation. The norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the Constitution of the Komi Republic in the field of national life are successfully implemented in practice. The diverse national life of the Komi Republic, as a historically formed multi-ethnic community, found its direct reflection in 12 out of 103 articles of the Komi Republic Constitution that is currently in force. The constitutional norms analyzed in the study have been successfully working and implemented in the diverse national life of the Republic for a quarter of a century. The region has created a developed infrastructure in the field of interethnic and inter-confessional relations. At the expense of the republican budget, subsidies are allocated to support the activities of social movements and national-cultural autonomies. The state language policy is aimed at cultivating the traditional values of the Russian language, of the native languages of the peoples living in the Republic. Based on the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the model of state national policy is aimed at serving the peoples’ interests in a multinational region in its composition. Thus, the main importance of this model is that it enables the authentic culture of Komi people to develop; it is aimed at meeting ethno-cultural needs and the needs of other nationalities, as well as contributes to the formation of an All-Russian civil identity.

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Information about the author

Alexander A. Popov – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher, Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Council of the Komi Regional Branch of the All-Russian Public Organization «Assembly of the Peoples of Russia», Russia, Syktyvkar (doctor_popov@mail.ru).

For citations

Popov A.A. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO ETHNO-CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE MULTI-ETHNIC REGION (on the materials of the Komi Republic). Historical Search, 2020, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 77–83. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-4-77-83 (in Russian).

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