An integral part of the global ethnic crisis is national conflicts on post-Soviet territory. It's not international conflicts in the traditional sense of the term, because that is not in the international sphere, and within the framework of a single State. At the same time, strictly speaking, today, they no longer are internal, because with the collapse of the Soviet Union due to its de facto the internationalization.
The USSR had a population of over 100 people, which struck its variety — language and religion, levels of development and historical heritage, cultural orientation, and the size of the population of the occupied territory. These features were until recently very strangely. So, orthodoxy profess and Georgians who have an ancient history, unique characters, unique culture, and the Chuvash — a quiet peasant people on the Volga River, speaking the language of the Turkic groups. In the Baltic States can be met by a zealous katolikovlitovcev with relatively high fertility and loved ones original luteranestoncev with extremely low birth rate and so on.
Many people of the older generation grew up in the belief that the peoples of the USSR have full equality and sovereignty, and that during the years of Soviet rule, they had reached "unprecedented prosperity". Unfortunately, this is not true. In the years of perestroika, it turned out that the nacional?nogosudarstvennoe structure needs to be improved, the legal status of national autonomous areas was not entirely fair, of the right of peoples, repressed during Stalin's tyranny, require restoration. Essentially unresolved were questions of protection of the national identity of minority peoples and nationalities, with no or living outside the borders of their nacional?noterritorial?nyh entities.
Aggravated and Sovietization on the territory of the Russian Federation. However, from the point of view of the national interest of Russia, its territorial integrity and the importance of national defense and border conflicts (Tajikistan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Georgia, etc.).
Russia and the global ethnic crisis