Professional Affiliation

President, Center for National and International Studies

Wilson Center Project

Ethnic Identity in the Post Soviet Era

Project Summary

Study of the ethnic, cultural and religious identities - their hierarchy, interdependence, level of multiplicity, in ethnic groups which will serve as one of the indicators of the level of ethnic sensitivity; investigation of the content of the historical memory, correlation between the days of glory and chosen traumas, existence of the enemy image; investigation of the time prospective of ethnic groups: study of the dominating type of personality in each of the ethnic groups with future orientation past orientation or present one; study of the value systems of the ethnic groups