Workshop “Ethnic Minorities in Russia”

Monday, 12 April 2010

Location: “Flensborghus”, Norderstr. 76, Flensburg

Thematic sections:

• Legal provisions for minorities
• Identity of minorities
• Ethnic federalism and minority governance
• Political participation and representation

The overall objective of this first workshop of the Study Group was to analyze which status the above-mentioned issues have in contemporary Russia, and in particular, in political everyday practice. The experts involved in the Study Group, who come from different academic and professional environments, discussed these crucial questions from the legal, sociological, anthropological and political science perspectives.