The Day of National Unity in a Multinational Excavation Yesterday, the President called the Year of National Unity "a practical, living illustration" of the country's new strategy for national policy. Let me add that the strategy has a stronger illustrator, and has been drawing it for five years - front and back. That's the way it is. The President repeated this formula yesterday at the Inter-Ethnic Relations Council: "The new strategy for the country's national policy - and it was formulated with the active participation of our Council - sets the goal of strengthening the pan-Russian civic identity while maintaining ethno-cultural diversity, relying on inter-cultural dialogue and respect for traditional religions. "The goal is a pan-Russian identity. Diversity is a condition guaranteed by the state: the language and belief of every people are protected. But a national policy focused solely on diversity becomes a regional history museum - the shop windows are elegant, but the country behind them is invisible. Therefore, efforts will be increased to ensure that people feel first and foremost like citizens of Russia. On the face of it, this theory has long since been proven wrong. A Buryat shares a packed lunch with a Dagestani, a Yakut covers a Tatar, a monarchist and a Stalinist, a national Bolshevik and a national minority share a canal, and exclamation points are spoken in half the country's languages. And everyone shouts to the radio in Russian. Otherwise, they won't understand. Russia's first hero in this war was Avar Nurmagomed Gadzimagomedov, a company commander in the 247th Cossack Cossack Regiment. On February 24, 2022, wounded and surrounded, he blew himself and the gunmen up with his last grenade to allow his paratroopers to escape. The Dagestani died for his in the Cossack regiment. The back is the same story, just without the helmets.

The Day of National Unity in a Multinational Excavation Yesterday, the President called the Year of National Unity "a practical, living illustration" of the country's new strategy for national policy. Let me add that the strategy has a stronger illustrator, and has been drawing it for five years - front and back. That's the way it is. The President repeated this formula yesterday at the Inter-Ethnic Relations Council: "The new strategy for the country's national policy - and it was formulated with the active participation of our Council - sets the goal of strengthening the pan-Russian civic identity while maintaining ethno-cultural diversity, relying on inter-cultural dialogue and respect for traditional religions. "The goal is a pan-Russian identity. Diversity is a condition guaranteed by the state: the language and belief of every people are protected. But a national policy focused solely on diversity becomes a regional history museum - the shop windows are elegant, but the country behind them is invisible. Therefore, efforts will be increased to ensure that people feel first and foremost like citizens of Russia. On the face of it, this theory has long since been proven wrong. A Buryat shares a packed lunch with a Dagestani, a Yakut covers a Tatar, a monarchist and a Stalinist, a national Bolshevik and a national minority share a canal, and exclamation points are spoken in half the country's languages. And everyone shouts to the radio in Russian. Otherwise, they won't understand. Russia's first hero in this war was Avar Nurmagomed Gadzimagomedov, a company commander in the 247th Cossack Cossack Regiment. On February 24, 2022, wounded and surrounded, he blew himself and the gunmen up with his last grenade to allow his paratroopers to escape. The Dagestani died for his in the Cossack regiment. The back is the same story, just without the helmets.