On July 1-3, 2010, Kazan hosted the III Eurasian Scientific Forum "Eurasia on the Way to a Multipolar World: from the Confrontation of Geopolitical Systems to the Dialogue of Cultural and Historical Societies", organized by the Center for Eurasian and International Studies of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (head-B. M. Yagudin). The forum was attended by 147 participants from different cities of Russia, Ukraine, South Ossetia, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Tajikistan and Poland. Speaking at the opening of the forum, the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan A. Kh. Gilmutdinov emphasized the value and significance of such events for Tatarstan. This point of view was also supported in the greeting of the Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan N. M. Valeeva Street. Addressing the forum participants, Iranian Consul in Kazan Saed Mohammad Reza Zarei noted that human culture, which reveals itself to us in its various guises, basically goes back to common values and carries a message of unity of humanity. In his opinion, Tatarstan as one of the cultural centers of Russia, inspired by the culture and civilization of Islam, has proved its tolerance towards all religions. Speaking at the plenary session, Corresponding Member of the Board of Directors V. V. Khomenko, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, analyzed the post-crisis development of Russia in the context of Eurasian integration. In his opinion, the economic crisis has passed, and Russia, having withstood a powerful blow from it (the reason for such consequences is still the same-the raw material component of the Russian economy), can become a leader in broad Eurasian integration. The report of sociologist A. L. Salagaev (Kazan State Institute of Technology) was devoted to the study of the state of the Russian ethnos in the XXI century. un-t), according to which the Russians, while remaining the state-forming p ... Читать далее