The new law ‘On The Russian Nation’ should be developed soon, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said Monday at a session of the Council For Inter-ethnic Relations.
The Russian leader welcomed a participant’s proposal ‘to proceed from the strategy to a federal law’ that is to include all the novelties linked with interethnic relations. He did not go into further details.
The idea was initiated by Vyacheslav Mikhailov, a department head at the Russian Academy of the National Economy and State Service. He proposed the title ‘On the Russian nation and interethnic relations management’, state-controled news agency TASS reports.
The Russian leader also called for establishing a ‘federal authority’ that would be responsible for ‘social adaptation’ of migrants in the country.
In 2012, Vladimir Putin signed the decree on the adoption of the Strategy of Russia’s State National Policy. It key goals are to ‘preserve and develop the cultures and languages of the peoples of Russia, to consolidate their spiritual unity; to ensure the rights of small indigenous peoples and minorities; to create additional socio-economic and political conditions to ensure lasting interethnic peace and accord in the North Caucasus; to support compatriots living abroad’.
In 2015, the country’s authorities founded the Federal Agency for Affairs of Nationalities, to which Putin ordered to ‘strengthen the unity’ of the peoples of Russia.
