Tatarstan has become one of the pilot regions for testing the monitoring system of interethnic and interfaith relations

April 25, 2015, Acting President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov signed the Decree "On the integrated monitoring system of interethnic and interfaith relations, and early warning of conflicts on religious and ethnic grounds in the Republic of Tatarstan".

The decision on the preparation and adoption of the Decree was adopted in December 2014 at a meeting of the Presidential Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on interethnic and interfaith relations and the Coordinating Council of law enforcement in order to ensure interethnic and interreligious harmony in the Republic of Tatarstan in the framework of implementation of the Strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation.

Decree approved the Regulation on an integrated monitoring system of interethnic and interfaith relations, and early warning of conflicts on religious and ethnic grounds in the Republic of Tatarstan, which defines the goals, objectives, organizational and legal basis of this monitoring.

The participants of the monitoring system are the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, ministries and departments, municipalities, and institutions of civil society associations, community and religious organizations, representatives of the expert community, the media.

In Russia,   the work in this direction was initiated after a meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations, held October 22, 2013 in Ufa. It was Russian President having instructed the Government of the Russian Federation to submit the proposal to establish a federal center for analysis and monitoring of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations. The relevant issue  was elaborated   by effective  at that time, the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation jointly with interested federal executive bodies.

Currently, Federal Center currently  is focusing on creating a system of monitoring the state of inter-ethnic and ethno-confessional relations, their early prediction and prevention of interethnic conflicts.

Testing of monitoring system is being held  in 11 pilot regions,  have confirmed their participation in the investigations. These are  - the Republic of Dagestan, the Republic of Crimea, Tatarstan, Stavropol region, Perm, Volgograd region, Voronezh region, Irkutsk region, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod region, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra.  Tatarstan was  included in the pilot regions in September 2014.

Monitoring of interconfessional and interethnic relations as provided for in the framework of the State Program "The implementation of the national policy in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2014-2020", which in turn is part of the federal target program "Strengthening the unity of the Russian nation and the ethnic and cultural development of the peoples of Russia (2014 - 2020) ".

Press Service

 Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan