The program
of the International scientific-practical conference
«Autonomous and administrative entities in the modern polities:
the Russian and international experience of a regional ethnic policy»
Kazan, on December, 5–6, 2006
Place of holding the conference:
Conference hall of the Center «the Hermitage – Kazan»
(Kazan, the Kremlin, museum complex «Khazine», the 3d floor)
Organizer:
Kazan Institute of Federalism
December, 5
Opening of the conference
Rafael Khakimov, director of scientific programs of the Kazan Institute of Federalism (KIF)
Session 1.
Suren Avakjan, Doctor of Law, head of constitutional law chair of the Moscow State University (Moscow)
Questions of national and territorial, national and cultural autonomy in modern Russia
Shakir Yagudin, PhD in Law, Head, Legal Board, RT State Council (Kazan)
Problems and prospects of realization of the constitutional bases of the Russian ethnic policy
Irina Busygina, Doctor of Political Sciences, the professor of comparative political science chair, ÌGIMO (U) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Moscow)
The strategy of regions and the national ethnic politics: «the French» Brittany and «the British» Scotland
Mikhail Filippov, PhD in Political Sciences and Economics (Caltech 1998), Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton (USA)
Guarantee problem of asymmetric model stability of federalism

S.Avakjan Sh.Yagudin M.Kurmanov

I.Busygina, M.Filippov L.Luchsheva, P.Pashaly
Discussion
Olga Valueva, editor of magazine «Comparative constitutional review», Institute of Law and Public Policy (Moscow)
The international and European standards of an ethnic policy
Arbakhan Magomedov, Doctor of Political Sciences, head of public relations chair of the Ulyanovsk State University (Ulyanovsk)
The Russian federalism and the Russian ethnic minority: to understanding of
a problem of political proportionality
Peter Pashaly, ex-chairman of the Gagauz National Assembly (1995–1999) (Moldova, Kishinev)
Social, economic, state and legal bases of Gagauz ethno-political development in
the post-Soviet period
Razil Valeev, chairman of Committee on culture, science, education and national questions of the State Council of RÒ (Kazan)
Role of State Council of RT in realization of a republican ethnic policy
Karl Rainer, director of administration of Presidium South Tirol (Italy);
Adolf Hampel, the professor of the Giessen University (Germany, Giessen)
Specificity of the legislation of a province Southern Tirol
Midkhat Kurmanov, PhD in Law, Minister of Justice RÒ (Kazan)
Constitutional and legal status of the official language of the republic in structure of
the Russian Federation
Lyudmila Pankratova, PhD in Law, the assistant professor, Academy of Management (TISBI) (Kazan)
The law on a national and cultural autonomy in Russia: experience of realization and prospect
of perfection

From left to right: R.Valeev, A.Hampel From left to right: Yu.Semenov, A.Magomedov

L.Pankratova, R.Abdrakhmanov From left to right: G.Makarova, G.Gabdrakhmanova
Discussion
December, 6
Session 2.
Alexander Zhuravsky, PhD in History, director of Department of interethnic relations, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation (Moscow)
Activity of federal executive authorities on realization of the state national politics of the Russian Federation
Guzel Makarova, PhD in Philosophy, the senior scientific employee of the ethnology department, the Institute of History, Academy of Science RÒ (AS RT) (Kazan)
Dynamics of correlation of ethnic and cultural politics of the Federal Center and Republic Tatarstan in 1990-2000
Adolf Hampel, the professor of the Giessen University (Germany, Giessen)
The significance of religion for ethnical groups
Rafic Mukhametshin, Doctor of Political Sciences, head of the department of history of public thought and islamic studies, the Institute of History, AS RT (Kazan)
Religious component of ethnic identity of Tatars at the present stage
Rozalinda Musina, PhD in History, head of the ethnology department, the Institute of History, AS RT (Kazan)
Ethnic and religious situation in modern Tatarstan
Elena Filippova, PhD in History, executive director of the Network of Ethnologic monitoring (Moscow)
Regionalism in France
Philippe Pesteil, University of Corte (France)
Between a recognition and disappearance: the state and region argue concerning the Corsican language

A.Zhuravsky From left to right: R.Mukhametshin, A.Hampel

R.Musina From left to right: E.Filippova, Ph.Pesteil, R.Vakhitov
Discussion
Yuriy Semenov, PhD in Philosophy, the senior scientific employee of the Udmurt branch of the Institute of philosophy and law of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the Udmurt Republic, Izhevsk)
Problems of preservation and development of spiritual culture of east-Finnish peoples of Russia during globalization
Eugeniy Klementyev, PhD in History, the senior scientific employee of the Language, Literature and History Institute of the Karelian Centre of Science, Russian Academy of Science (Petrozavodsk)
Realization of the right on preservation of the native language in Republic Karelia:
the condition, problems, prospects
Ilgiza Gabdulgafarova, PhD in Philosophy, the manager of faculty of the sociopolitical theory of the Orenburg State Pedagogical University (Orenburg)
Ethnoic and cultural formation of ethnic minorities as a making part of a regional ethnic policy
Alexander Salagaev, Doctor in Sociology, director of the Center of analytical researches and development, professor of the Kazan State Technological University;
Lyudmila Luchsheva, PhD in Sociology, the scientific employee of the Center of analytical researches and development (Kazan)
Ethnic aspect in the modern cultural politics (by the example of the Republic of Tatarstan)
Liliya Sagitova, PhD in History, the senior scientific employee of the ethnology department, the Institute of History, AS RT (Kazan)
Survival of the Tatar language in globalized community: pro et contra
Marat Gibatdinov, PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, the senior scientific employee of the Center of history and theory of national education, the Institute of History, AS RT (Kazan)
National education of Tatars at the present stage
Gulnara Gabdrakhmanova, PhD in Sociology, the senior scientific employee of the ethnology department, the Institute of History, AS RT (Kazan)
Educational system with an ethnic and cultural component in modern Tatarstan

From left to right: O.Valueva, L.Sagitova A.Salagaev

E.Klementyev I.Gabdulgafarova M.Gibatdinov
Discussion
Closing of the conference