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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 3

Complementary of the interethnic relations of the youth of Russia and Mongolia in new geopolitical conditions

D. V. Ushakov
Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaeva St., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: interethnic relations, mindsets, the youth, sympathies, antipathies, complementarity, peoples, Russia, Mongolia

Abstract

In the post-perestroika period and the era of reform, the Russian politicians focusing on the US and European powers were engaged in domestic socio-economic and political problems, not paying much attention to our nearest neighbors including Mongolia. In the conditions of breaking down the bipolar system, Mongolia also started to build a more independent political line with regard to Russia, focusing on closer contacts with the United States, Europe and the East Asian region. However, today we can observe a new round of relations between Mongolia and Russia. We should particularly note that in the new multipolar world the contacts between Russia and Mongolia are developing in the spirit of positive political, socio-economic and cultural cooperation. The article presents the results of surveys of Russian and Mongolian youth, the residents of Novosibirsk and Ulan Bator. Whereas the majority of Russian youth have sympathy for European peoples, but to a lesser extent to the Asian ones, including the Mongols, the Mongolian youth expresses its sympathy to both European and Asian peoples, and in relation to Russians the rate of sympathy is greater than to other nations. What will be the relationship in the future depends largely on ethnic attitudes and political orientations of young people of both countries, on those value-related positions which are shared by the current younger generation, and the priorities that they will take from the teachers and parents.