俄罗斯族际关系的发展及联邦政府的政策措施

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA’S ETHNIC RELATIONS AND THE POLICY ADOPTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

苏联解体后,民族问题因与联邦体制、地方经济分立主义、宗教极端势力等交织在一起,曾一度严重威胁到俄国统一和政局稳定.俄两代国家领导人先后采取了堵塞政策法规漏洞、加强中央集权、经济扶持等有力举措,力图缓解族际矛盾,从根本上消除各民族的离心倾向.

Zhao is an expert on Russia's internal affairs and his articles are always good at irrefutable facts and detailed analyses.This article tells us that the ethnic relations have experienced some new development under Putin's rule.Compared with Yeltsin's ethnic policy,Putin has got some new ideas for treating the complicated ethnic problems.First,politically,he made reform in the nation's political system,resuming and establishing a vertical system to exercise power from the higher levels to the grassroots so as to secure the implementation of the ethnic policy.Second,ideologically,Putin educated and armed the Russian people with “thought of new Russia” in order to overcome the centrifugal effect among ethnic groups.Third,economically,Putin helped and developed the poverty areas where ethnic backwardness has been a problem so as to thoroughly eliminate the centrifugal tendency among ethnic groups.Fourth,striking hard at the extremist ethnic forces which endanger Russia's national security and damage Russia's territorial integrity and unification.