ORGANIZATIONAL SEARCH FOR FORMALIZATION OF THE PUBLIC ASSOCIATION OF KRYASHENS IN THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN IN 1989-2007 (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE KAZAN ASSOCIATION OF KRYASHENS)
The article examines the problem of the ideological and practical transformation of the organizational and legal forms and types of public associations and the national and cultural self-determination of the Kryashens in the Republic of Tatarstan on the example of their Kazan community. The chronological sequence of events has been reconstructed in detail, causality have been identified. The general dynamics and development trends of the formalization of social structures have been studied. On the basis of archival documentary evidence, first introduced into scientific circulation, an attempt to create a national-cultural autonomy within the Kazan community of the Kryashens in the period from 1996 to 1998, as well as the associated socio-political discourse, is examined in detail. Special attention is paid to the fate of this initiative in relation to the entire movement in the republic as a whole.