Russian President approves new ethnic-relations strategy
President Vladimir Putin has approved Russia's new
ethnic-relations strategy, Radio Liberty reported.
On December 19, Putin signed a decree endorsing the new
Nationalities Policy Strategy and ordered the government to draw up
a plan for putting it into practice.
The new Nationalities Policy Strategy will be in effect until 2015
replacing a document in place since 1996.
It sets guidelines for political, economic, and cultural policies
affecting dozens of Russia's ethnic groups.
In his first annual address to parliament since beginning his third
term as president in May, Putin earlier this month spoke of the
need to preserve the Russian national identity.
Media reports say that after initial criticism of the draft, the
document drops references to the "state-forming role of the Russian
people" and refers instead to their "unifying role."
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