CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK TRANSFORMATION TO REINFORCE INTERETHNIC ACCORD
Marat Salikov, Ekaterina G. Kalinina · European and Asian Law Review · 2022
This paper explores constitutional reforms that occurred in Russia and some countries of the Euro-Asian Region aimed at interethnic accord solidification and protection on the way to national unity among other things; it also reveals terminological ambiguity in the field of interethnic relations. The following methods are used: a technical legal method, a systems analysis method, synthesis and test methods are used in the research. The main results of constitutional transformations in the field of interethnic relations are reconsidered in the paper; national and international acts that enable interethnic accord solidification are analyzed; the value of interethnic accord solidification is established; certain legislation defects preventing harmonization of interethnic relations are revealed. The authors state the following results: 1) two approaches to the term ‘interethnic’ have been illustrated; 2) various practices of terminology application have been demonstrated based on regulatory acts and documents; 3) the main results of Russia’s 2020 constitutional reform and constitutional reforms in the field of interethnic relations made in other countries have been provided; 4) the analysis of regulatory enforcement in the field of interethnic accord has been conducted; 5) the role of interethnic accord as a constitutional and universal human value for social and economic development of the state has been explained.