European Northof Russia: Ethnopolitics and the Crisis of Local Communities
The article is devoted to the analysis of social and demographic processes occurring in the last decades in the regions of the European North of the Russian Federation and the way in which these processes are taken into account in the formation of regional models of ethnopolitics. It is shown that the region which, by the beginning of the 20th century, Began to be called the “Russian North”, is experiencing a deep demographic crisis, which is caused by the loss of its cultural and social attractiveness. In fact, we are talking about the far-gone processes of decolonization of the Russian North. To remedy the situation, it is necessary to make decisions at the national level. These decisions should concern the creation of incentives for consolidating the population in the North and creating more comfortable conditions for business development in these conditions for business development. The article is devoted to the analysis of social and demographic processes occurring in the last decades in the regions of the European North of the Russian Federation and the way in which these processes are taken into account in the formation of regional models of ethnopolitics. It is shown that the region which, by the beginning of the 20th century.