Practical Aspects of Cultural Policy in Ethnic Administrative Territorial Units // in Facets of Culture in the Age of Social Transition

Abstract

The article describes the specifics of the implementation of cultural policy in ethnic administrative territorial units, and in places of compact residence of indigenous minorities of the Russian North, Siberia, and the Far East. This topic is highly relevant because the analysis of actual implementation of cultural politics has shown that not enough attention is being paid to the ethno-cultural aspects. Existing cultural policy is characterized by an internal contradiction: on the one hand, it facilitates integration of ethnic minorities into the common Russian and global cultural space; on the other, it has to deal with the desire of the minorities themselves to preserve their ethnocultural identity.