Born in 1951 in the city of Kazan.
Education:
1. Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov, 1983
2. Dissertation for a candidate’s degree, 1992
Theme: “Interconnections of politics and economics in theory and practice of dictatorship of the proletariat”
Uralskiy State University (Ekaterinburg)
Position:
1. 1984-1994 - Kazan State Institute for Culture, Dept. of Philosophy, Senior Teacher
2. From 1995 to present - Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Institute for History, Dept. of History of Social Thought and Islamic Studies, Senior researcher
Fields of research and expert activities:
From 1997 is an expert of the Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning (EAWARN) under the international project “Conflict Management in the Post-Soviet States” in the Republic of Tatarstan (founding director of the EAWARN, prof. Valery Tishkov)
Areas of specialization: Studies on Statehood in Tatarstan & Federalism in Russia
Language spoken: Russian, Tatar, Reading knowledge & colloquial knowledge of German, beginner in English.
Published works:
1. R. Abdrakhmanov, E. Mavrina. Republic of Tatarstan. Model of Ethnological Monitoring. Moscow. 1999. 150 p. (in Russian)
2. The prospects of federalism in Russia // Etno. 2001, N 1. In collaboration with G.Pougacheva. (in Russian)
3. Abdrakhmanov R.F. Local self-management in Republic of Tatarstan // Local management of multiethnical communities in the CIS countries. Edited by V.Tishkov and E.Filippova. - M.: Open Society «Aviaizdat», 2001. - 400 p. (in Russian)
4. Local self-government in the Republic of Tatarstan // Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the CIS. Budapest. 2002. - 356 p.
5. Interethnic situation in Tatarstan // Interethnic attitudes and conflicts in the post-soviet states. The annual report, 2001. Moscow. 2002. (in Russian)
6. Republic of Tatarstan // On a way to census. - M.: Open Society «Aviaizdat», 2003. – pp. 421-440. (in Russian)
7. The All-Russia census in Tatarstan: forecasts, events, comments // Ethnography of census-2002. – M.: Open Society «Aviaizdat», 2003. – p 287-305. (in Russian)
8. Tatarstan in the beginning of the XXI century // Atlas Tartarika. The history of Tatars and peoples of Eurasia. Republic of Tatarstan yesterday and today. Issue Center «Design. Information. Cartography». 2005. – p. 888. (in Russian)
Regular expert surveys on ethno-political processes in Tatarstan published in Bulletin of Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts and among them (in Russian):
1. R.Abdrakhmanov. Republic in the Mirror of Sociology // Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts. Bulletin, N 13, May 1997.
2. R.Abdrakhmanov. Ex-territorial forms of self-organisations of Tatars. Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts. Bulletin N 25, May-June,1999.
3. R.Abdrakhmanov. United Action of the Opposition. Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts. Bulletin N 26, July-August, 1999.
4. Reforms of a state system of Russia // Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflicts. Privoljsk Federal Region. The bulletin ¹ 1, November 2000. and many other.
