Training seminar

On May 18, this year, the Department for Religious Affairs of the Akimat of the North Kazakhstan region held a training seminar for heads and specialists of internal policy departments and members of district information and explanatory groups in the field of religion in order to provide methodological and practical assistance in conducting information and explanatory work among the population of the region.

Opening the seminar, the head of the department, Roza Kasenova, noted that the situation in the religious sphere of the region is currently stable, but there is an active preaching activity of individual representatives of religious associations and in this regard, it is necessary to strengthen explanatory work. She also stressed that according to the methodological recommendations of the CDR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, it is necessary to focus on the work in the selected target groups, based on the level of risk.

Oleg Sinyakov, a religious specialist of the Department for Analysis and Development of Inter-confessional Relations, spoke on the topic "Methods and characteristic features of working with the population". Saltanat Meymanova, head of the Department of Extremism Prevention and Rehabilitation Work of the UDR, made a presentation on the topic "Missionary activity and legal responsibility", and also gave recommendations to the members of the IRG on organizing and conducting targeted preventive work in high-risk groups. The seminar was attended by representatives of 6 districts and the city of Petropavlovsk.