NORMATIVE-LEGAL BASES OF STATE NATIONAL POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
State national policy is particularly relevant for the multinational Russian Federation, its purpose is to ensure the sustainable development of ethno-national communities, to overcome inter-ethnic tension and confrontation. The national policy should take into account the changes in ethno-national structure of the population in the regions and the growing role of ethno-national factor in the social development on the whole. Equality of all peoples, regardless of their number and national-ethnic distinctions, democracy in relations between peoples, build up of their spiritual capacities and development of their spiritual culture are laid down in the legal and normative acts of the RF State Ethnic Policy.