Ethnic and Cultural Identity in the Basic Value System of the Russians

More than 160 representatives of different nations and religions inhabit Russia. All the citizens of the country possess equal rights for their cultural, linguistic and religious identity according to the provision of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.The issue of ethnic and cultural minorities that is almost equal to the problem of ethnic and cultural communities is becoming a matter of current interest all over the world, especially in Russia where it is closely connected with the growth of ethnic self-identity of the host population and migrants. Post-Soviet territory of our country treats this problem as a very vexed issue because the collapse of the Soviet Union lead to the political problem of citizenship: whether the migrants become those who need naturalization (citizens ready to adopt both culture and language of the host country), temporal residents (labor migrants) or ethnic minorities of the state where they plan to stay and lobby the interests of their motherland.Key factor of the modern geo-political situation of dynamic change of social, cultural, economic relations in Russia and overseas is the formation of ethnic and cultural identity of Russians as the members of the civil culture.The search of common principles of mutual integration such as language, interests of the territory and the community, shared goals are to our opinion the most important for formation of the Russian nation under the modern conditions. Mechanisms of mutual cultural integration aimed at unification of all the Russian citizens will work after the effective implementation of mechanisms of social citizenship making divergent process of interrelations and mutual integration.This approach is bilateral as it changes representatives of all the cultures. This leads to a certain hybridization and legitimate normative culture.One of the main efforts of the regional authorities in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation must be the principle of inconsistency of topography of poverty and ethnic map. Ethnic and cultural uniqueness is often realized in countryside, in a town and local society and these small territories are zones of potential social, economic and ethnic and cultural adversity