The topic of Global Policy Forum in Yaroslavl will be national relations and conflicts, and the efficiency of multiculturalism, Head of the Executive Directorate of the Forum Vladislav Inozemtsev said. President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and President of Turkey Abdullah Gul will participate in the Forum that will be held on September, 7-8 in Yaroslavl.

The Forum will take place in Yaroslavl on September 7-8.

'This year the topic of the Forum is very provocative. It is connected to ethnic, religious and national diversity of modern states and the difficulties their governments face because of this diversity', Inozemtsev told reporters on Tuesday.

According to him the president will take part in the Forum and deliver a speech on the day of plenary sessions.

Moreover, Ms Merkel and the president of Turkey are expected to come to the Forum. The heads of all Russian political parties and a number of governors will also participate in the Forum. The main participants will be Russian and foreign political scientists and spin-doctors. Mr. Inozemtsev also noted that some Nobel Prize winners would be present.

The experts and political scientists coming to the Forum have divergent views including those regarding Russia. For instance the organizers are expecting a well-known pundit Zbigniew Brzezinski who is not according to Inozemtsev 'a Russophile'.

'The choice of the topic reflects the concern that exists in Russian political class towards this problem. Vladimir Putin has recently set a special government department on these issues', Head of the Executive Directorate of the Forum said.

‘The urgency of the topic is due to the tragic events in Norway brought to the forefront, serious revolt that happened in Britain, some difficulties that occurred in Russia last December', Inozemtsev pointed out.

Inozemtsev called national divergence in Russia where unlike Western Europe there exists huge national diversity 'catastrophically dangerous'. Russia cannot let things rip, he noted. However there does not seem to be any serious political program for the settlement of this problem.

'In my opinion the government does too little to deal with this issue’, he said.

'There is no clear idea (of national policy) and everything that happens in this area now is basically a consequence of the paradigm characteristic to the USSR. I.e. the same idea of national republics and autonomies that was used in the USSR is (being realized) on a more limited territory', Inozemtsev said.

Many experts and the academic community on the whole are discussing the problems of a new concept of national policy, the coining of the concept of a civic nation, the revision of the idea that the Russian Federation is a community of different peoples, the decrease of the national factor's importance in the governance of the republics. 'Those discussions do not have political tinge yet', Head of the Executive Directorate of Global Policy Forum thinks.

 

Author: RIA Novosti', 23.08.2011

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