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National representatives of the region will be able to unite under one roof. For the first time in the region, with the support of the regional administration, its own House of Nationalities appeared.
Equipped offices, a library, a hall - these are the resources that today have become available to national associations of the Kostroma region. All public associations working in the ethnocultural sphere will be able to meet on one platform. It is planned to hold exhibitions and festivals here, discuss regional ethnocultural programs, and mark the beginning of a unique library of the peoples of the world. “There are friendship houses in many regions. I am confident that multinational Kostroma will take the most worthy place on this list,” he noted grand opening Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Russia Nazirzhon Abduganiev. The guest of Kostroma promised to help fill the library of the House of Nationalities. “I believe that today we are present at a historical event: what everyone has been talking about and dreaming about for so long is happening. We are opening the House of Friendship, where all ethnic groups living in the Kostroma region can find their home and have their own office. Here you can gather, hold your own events or international events, invite young people and schoolchildren here. All this is necessary so that residents of the Kostroma region know the traditions and culture of the peoples who live here and have experience of interethnic communication,” Deputy Governor Alexander Sokolov emphasized, speaking to the participants of the celebration. The high emotional wave of the holiday was supported by the chairman of the regional Armenian national-cultural autonomy of the Kostroma region, Armine Dzhuvalikyan. “I feel very excited because we have been working towards this for a very long time. This is our home and we must try to make it as beautiful as possible,” Armine Dzhuvalikyan shared with the guests. The House of Nationalities was created with funds from a grant received by the Non-Profit Organization " Fund for Support of Public Initiatives». This project also received support from the administration of the Kostroma region within the framework of the program “Harmonization of interethnic, interfaith relations and ethnocultural development of peoples in the Kostroma region for 2014-2020.” Press service of the governor of the Kostroma region
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18.07.2019 Administration of the Kostroma region In the last decade, the problem of interethnic friendship and the creation of favorable conditions for interethnic harmony at the state level has been given special attention. A large role in this work is given to non-profit organizations who, step by step, are restoring this fragile peace, are again teaching respect for good neighborliness. The Houses of Friendship or Houses of Nationalities created in many regions of the country have become a great help in this work. In the Kostroma region, the need to create such a site began to be discussed in 2010. And thanks to a presidential grant in 2016, such a platform appeared in Kostroma. In a short period of time, a lot of work was carried out, which received the support of regional authorities and the interethnic community, unique experience of working together with national organizations was accumulated, 16 organizations found their home under the roof of the House of Nationalities. And this work must be continued and strengthened.
The project is aimed at organizing systematic work with ethnocultural associations and religious organizations and includes a number of areas:
No. 1. Organization and holding of joint events with ethnocultural associations. Together with each organization, a plan of events was drawn up within the framework of the project, including national holidays with the aim of introducing, popularizing and introducing the peoples of the Kostroma region to the culture.
No. 2. Publication of the newspaper "Commonwealth Region", dedicated to the activities of ethnocultural associations, the culture of the peoples living in the Kostroma region, stories about outstanding Kostroma residents of different nationalities.
No. 3. Organization of Sunday School. As part of this direction, on the basis of the House of Nationalities, the study of the languages of the peoples of the Kostroma region will be organized: Azerbaijani, Moldavian, Tatar, Armenian, Ingush and German.
No. 4. Program for adaptation and integration of migrants into modern Russian society. This direction is one of the key ones and will be implemented with the direct and deep involvement of ethnocultural associations in the process.
No. 5. Conducting an expert interregional forum "Interethnic World of Regions".
No. 6. Providing legal and accounting support to ethnocultural NPOs.
A distinctive feature of the project will be that the organizers of all processes will be the ethnocultural associations themselves, with the direct coordination of the Kostroma House of Nationalities, including the holding of joint holidays.
Goals
- The goal of the project is to create conditions for the preservation of cultural diversity and the development of interethnic relations in the Kostroma region.
Tasks
- Implementation of measures to preserve the culture, language, traditions and customs of the peoples of the Kostroma region
- Providing methodological, informational, accounting, legal and property support to national public associations and national-cultural autonomies
- Organization and holding of joint events with national public organizations aimed at getting to know the culture and traditions of the peoples of the Kostroma region
- Organization of work with regional and local media, local self-government bodies on issues of organization of work and issues of covering national issues in the media
- Publication of the newspaper "Commonwealth Region" in order to inform the population about the activities of ethnocultural associations and project events
- Formation of a culture of interethnic relations, development of tolerance and religious tolerance in modern society through youth work
- Implementation of measures for the sociocultural adaptation of migrants in the Kostroma region
- Creation of a permanent interregional expert platform on interethnic relations in the Kostroma region
Justification of social significance
Representatives of 114 nationalities live in the Kostroma region. As of January 1, 2017, 178 religious organizations and 30 religious groups belonging to 13 religious associations were registered and operating in the region. The key problems in the state of interethnic and interfaith relations in the region remain:- weak all-Russian civic consciousness (all-Russian civic identity) with the increasing importance of ethnic and religious self-identification;
- an increase in the number of external labor migrants and their low sociocultural adaptation to the conditions of the host community;
- insufficient coordination both at the regional and local levels of the use of resources in order to achieve harmonization of interethnic, interfaith relations, ethnocultural development of the peoples of the Kostroma region;
- the growth of nationalist sentiments among various ethnic communities;
- strengthening the negative impact of internal migration on the state of interethnic and interreligious relations in the region;
- low level of knowledge about the culture and traditions of the peoples of the Kostroma region.
Interethnic peace and harmony is a fragile, complex sphere, with many hidden currents and pitfalls. Solving ethnocultural problems in the context of the ethnic diversity of the region requires systematic interaction between government authorities and local government, public associations and other subjects of ethnocultural activity, which necessitates the use software methods. One of the effective steps to ensure international peace and harmony, ensuring equal rights and freedoms of the peoples living on the territory of the Kostroma region, to preserve national and cultural identity, to form a positive image of the Kostroma region as a platform for dialogue of cultures (or a region of the commonwealth), will be the implementation of the project " Kostroma House Nationalities 2.0". The social significance of the project lies in increasing the role public institutions, including national, cultural and religious organizations in preserving interethnic peace and harmony. The active participation of ethnocultural and religious organizations in the project will make it possible to systematically assist authorities in the implementation of state national policy, build horizontal ties through joint activities, get to know each other’s cultures, and involve broad sections of the population in the process of project implementation.
Representatives of official ethnocultural associations of people who live on Kostroma soil will be able to work there. After the housewarming party, representatives of national-cultural autonomies, diasporas and associations met at the forum. And we discussed issues of cooperation.
Several offices, a large conference room, a library where publications about the traditions and history of different peoples are collected. At Sverdlova, 60b in Kostroma, all conditions have been created for the work of ethnocultural associations of the Kostroma region. Here you can hold a scientific conference, drink tea with your compatriots, and current work to do. Everything is free.
Armine Dzhuvalikyan, Chairman of the Armenian National-Cultural Autonomy in the Kostroma Region:“We have all been working towards this for a very long time. This is important because when we are all together, we will always have good and kind ideas that we will implement. And let everyone see how we live together.”
Representatives of 114 nationalities live in the Kostroma region today. There are 30 ethnocultural associations. And interethnic unity is strengthening year by year, Governor Sergei Sitnikov is convinced. Kostroma residents are not inclined to ask the question “Whose will you be?” Largely due to knowledge of the traditions and customs of different peoples, respect for Russian laws, the general desire for the development of Russia.
Sergey Sitnikov, governor of the Kostroma region:“Today, you and I, in fact, must cultivate internationalists and patriots. In the Kostroma region there has been a lot of progress in this direction. good experience. We tried to use forms of work that are based on public initiatives, the activities of youth and children's organizations.
This thesis is also supported by social activists. The echoes of world events make themselves felt. Either religious radicals or unscrupulous politicians are trying to cause discord in the international world. In 2015, members of the Public Chamber twice appealed to ethnocultural associations with a request to prevent the emergence of extremist sentiments on Kostroma soil.
Yuri Tsikunov, Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Kostroma Region:“All sides of the discussions that we held correctly understood the situation and carried out their national associations necessary work and found understanding. Harmonization of relations is the only sure way to ensure that we spend our energy not on sorting out relations, but on quickly bringing our region to the forefront.”
Having discussed issues of harmonization of interethnic relations, the forum participants joined the celebration of Novruz Bayram - the time of the arrival of spring and the renewal of nature. It was organized for all guests by the Kostroma Azerbaijani Autonomy.
