национально-культурная автономия

The article reveals the problems of legislation in the sphere of functioning of national and cultural autonomies that affect politics both on regional and federal levels. The author notes the need to reform the legal framework for the functioning of national and cultural autonomies in the context of the national security Strategy of Russia.

The article considers the experience of implementing ethnocultural policy at the regional level by the example of Saratov region. The author analyzes the normative-legal provision of ethnocultural policy in the region. The questions of realization of the right to cultural selfdetermination, receipt of ethnocultural education and the preservation of the native language, interaction with ethnic public associations.

The article considers the main stages of formation and development of the institute of nation-cultural autonomy, development of the international legal framework and principles of cultural autonomy. The analysis is based on the international system for the protection of national minorities, which laid the legal, political and social based of activity of the institute of nation-cultural autonomy.