Paul
Goble
Staunton, July 18 – The Russian
State Humanities University has announced the opening of a masters degree
program in ethnic politics to prepare students to work in the field of
inter-ethnic relations and migration affairs, the first such program not only
there but in the Russian Federation as a whole (nazaccent.ru/content/30396-v-rggu-vpervye-v-rossii-nachnut.html).
Up to now and without any announcement,
Magomed Omarov, the director of the new program says, there have been 3.5
applicants for every slot. He said his institution
had created the program because of “the colossal shortage of specialists” in
nationality affairs in the Russian Federation.
Among those who have agreed to teach
courses in the two-year program are Leokadiya Drobizheva, the head of the
Moscow Center for Research on Inter-Ethnic relations, Vladimir Zorin of the Institute
of Ethnology and Anthropology, and Vladimr Mukomel of the Moscow Institute of
Sociology.
Among the subjects the students will
study are ethno-politics, regional political processes, the administration of
ethno-political processes, nation building in Russia and the world, state
nationalities and migration policies, national and civic identity, language
policy, and ethno-political conflicts.
Omarov says that he expects
graduates of the program to work in the Presidential Administration, the Russian
government, committees of the Federal Assembly, the Federal Agency for
Nationality Affairs, the migration service of the Interior Ministry, the
nationalities department of the city of Moscow, and international organizations
involved in these issues.
The appearance of this program will
simultaneously fill gaps for practical workers that the existing Academy of
Science institutions have not and challenge those institutions for dominance in
the elaboration and application of state policy on nationality, legal and
language issues.
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