
An online meeting of the scientific Expert Council of the People's Assembly of Kazakhstan was held at the space of the Institute of Applied Ethnopolitical Research of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Secretariat of the People's Assembly of Kazakhstan (SPAK) of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Committee for the Development of Interethnic Relations (CDIR) of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the scientific Expert community on interethnic issues, heads of the departments of internal/public policy of the Akimats of the regions, the cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Shymkent.
In his welcoming speech, Deputy Head of the SPAK of the PA of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerlan Abdakassov noted that it is important to comprehensively develop the expert community on interethnic relations, to give timely assessments of the current situation and broadcast them in the information space.
During the meeting, Chairman of the scientific Expert Council of the PAK Aigul Sadvokassova presented a list of applied and fundamental research topics that take into account the current needs of ethnopolitics.
In turn, Chairman of the Committee for the Development of Interethnic Relations of the MISD of the RK Galym Shoikin shared the results of the work done with the regions to determine the basic topics of research in the field of interethnic relations. The need for such research is caused, first of all, by the need of the regions to solve certain topical issues of the interethnic sphere.
Following the discussion, the participants of the working session exchanged views and gave their suggestions on current topics and mechanisms for implementing scientific projects in the area.