“Religious Security in the Lower Volga Region: Current State and Stabilization Technologies”: Materials of the Round Table

Abstract

The main issue for discussion at the round table was the current state of the religious situation in the Lower Volga region (Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov regions) and the technology of stabilization of ethno-confessional relations. The article deals with the problems of ensuring religious security, particularly the identification of religious extremist sentiments, interconfessional tensions in the Lower Volga region. As the mechanisms of stabilization the speakers highlighted the increasing role of national and cultural autonomies of the Lower Volga region in the stabilization of national and religious relations. The materials also present scientific and practical recommendations to the state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to minimize socio-religious risks.