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Problems of Maintaining Ethnopolitical Stability and the Prevention of Conflicts in the Volga Federal District
Pages 112-119

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From page 112...
... Amelin Chair of the Committee on Internationality Relations Orenburg Oblast Administration he Volga Federal District comprises 15 subjects of the Russian Federation. Of the 32 national-administrative entities in Russia, 7 are located in the district, and 6 of these are considered republics (Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, Mary-El, Mordovia, Tatarstan, and Chuvashia)
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From page 113...
... An analysis of the ethnic composition of the two most recent convocations of the State Assembly of the Republic of Bashkortostan likewise provides evidence of the predominance of deputies of the Bashkort nationality, which does not correspond to the proportion of this ethnic group in the overall population of the republic. The proportion of deputies who are ethnic Russians is nearly half the proportion of the Russian population of Bashkortostan, and conversely, the proportion of Bashkort deputies is twice as high as the proportion of that ethnicity in the overall population.
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From page 114...
... Surveys of the residents of the border regions of Orenburg Oblast have shown that the respondents have their own ideas regarding how border security should be handled. Opinions were divided into two positions supported by approximately equal numbers of people: 41.4 percent believe that the border should be strictly secured, while 43.4 percent believe that it should be relatively free for contacts between citizens of Rus3Gabdrafikov, L M
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From page 115...
... There are two major laws regulating migration in Russia, namely the Law on Refugees and the Law on Forced Migrants. Forced migrants are virtually economic migrants.
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From page 116...
... Among the negative consequences of migration, the local population notes · reduced availability of jobs · reduced availability of housing · increased crime rates · aggravated interethnic relations · possibilities of the spread of infectious disease Incidentally, as sociological surveys demonstrate, the migrants themselves have an overly positive estimation of the way in which the local population views them. The migrants perceive the attitude of locals as mainly loyal, however reality often overturns this perception.
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From page 117...
... Also in attendance was Talgat Tadzhuddin, the chief mufti and chairman of the CSBM of Russia and the European Countries of the CIS. Participants in the conference disagreed with the renaming of the Buguruslan muftiyat as the CSBM of Orenburg Oblast Based in the City of Buguruslan until a joint conference of the two mufityats was held to discuss unification into a single spiritual administration and the Orenburg muftiyat approved the registration.
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From page 118...
... In this regard, the practice of training Islamic clerics abroad arouses the anxieties of government officials and the public. Today, hundreds of young Muslims, including those from Orenburg Oblast, are being educated at Muslim theological institutions in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, and other countries.
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From page 119...
... They include · intradenominational conflicts within Islamic communities, conflicts between muftiyats, and intensified competition for believers in regions where there are two or three muftiyats with different orientations · increased flows of narcotics from adjacent states, as well as illegal immigrants from more distant countries · decreased tolerance toward immigrants from the Caucasus, which may lead to local conflicts · increased migration flows in the border regions of the Volga Federal District as a result of an aggravation of the situation on the border with Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
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