NORM-CREATING TRENDS IN THE REGULATION OF ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL RELATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The processes of nation-building, the formation and development of ethno-confessional relations in the Russian Federation in some cases are accompanied by conflicts, therefore, they require a strict normativity regulation. At the same time, they are regulated not only by legal instruments, but also through such social normative regulators as religion, morality, custom, traditions, language, etc. The study of the ethno-confessional relation normative regulation dynamics made it possible to identify a number of norm-creating tendencies. Normative legal regulation is characterized by the emergence of norms aimed at prohibiting the politicization of ethno-confessional relations; the establishment of the priority of individual rights over the rights of a group in ethno-confessional contradictions; strengthening of legal responsibility for violation of the norms governing ethno-confessional relations, etc. Religious norm-creating (on the example of the Russian Orthodox Church), is characterized by an orientation towards interethnic and interreligious dialogue in order to resolve common social problems, but excluding theological compromises; finding a balance between the rights of the individual and the rights of the group in a ethno-confessional tension situation; normative consolidation of the peacemaking obligations of the Church in the interethnic conflicts, etc. Norm-creating trends in morality are much more difficult to trace, since they, as a rule, are not fixed in normative documents and are not verbalized openly. However, this does not diminish the importance of studying the moral regulation of ethno-confessional relations. For this, in particular, such a normative concept as «social imaginary» can be used.