THE ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES TO THE HARMONIZATION OF ETHNO-POLITICAL RELATIONS IN THE PERIOD OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY TRANSFORMATION IN THE LATE XX AND EARLY XXI (BASED ON MATERIALS OF THE KABARDINO-BALKARIA AND KARACHAY-CHERKESSIA)
This article explores the experience of public authorities to ensure the ethno-political stability in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. The main factors that form the ethnic and political tension in the region are revealed. Particular attention is paid to finding the best mechanisms for solving ethnic problems. The use of regional proportional election system allows the political parties to overcome established percent threshold (electoral threshold), to hold its parliamentary candidates in order to provide more or less in proportion to the ethnic structure of the population of the subject. Such practice ensure representation of the major ethnic groupsin the government allowsto maintain social and politicalstability in the region. The work of public authorities on political, territorial and socio-economic rehabilitation of repressed peoples, the Balkars, the Karachays, the Cossacks is analyzed. All these measures contributed to the elimination of tensions in international relations. However, one of the difficult issues of rehabilitation is territorial disputes. For their conflict-free solutions from the federal government and local authorities are required not only to deliberate action to eliminate already occurred crisis situations, but also on the prediction and prevention of possible new clashes over territorial disputes.