CIAO DATE: 04/04

National-Cultural Autonomies and Interethnic Relations in the Kaliningrad Oblast
Workshop: National-Cultural Autonomies and Organizations of the Kaliningrad Oblast and their Role in the Social and Political Life of the Region, Kaliningrad-Svetlogorsk, 26-27 March 2002 and Roundtable Problems in Interethnic Relations in the Kalinigrad Oblast, Svetlogorsk, 1-3 June 2002

Introduction

This workshop was organized and fully sponsored by ECMI in collaboration with the Kaliningrad Oblast Duma as a follow-up of the ECMI Roundtable meeting "Migration and Forced Migration in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia", which took place in Flensburg from 22 to 23 June 2001.

The workshop was opened on 26 March 2002 in the Assembly Hall of the Kaliningrad Duma. More than forty people participated. Mr Vladimir Bagalin, Chairman of the Kaliningrad Duma Committee for Law, Order and Security, International and Interethnic Relations, greeted the participants and stressed the importance of the meeting, the first international event in Kaliningrad on national minorities for such issues as interethnic relations and the development of civil society in the region.

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