Sociological monitoring of interethnic relations

An article is directed on working out of methodological bases for new scientific vision of different interethnic and inter confessional relations and processes; determination of condition and tendencies in the sphere of interethnic and inter confessional relations; revelation of creative (positive) fields of interethnic and inter confessional interaction in conditions of national, confessional and ethnic-cultural diversity. Working out of scientifically based system of monitoring of different indexes of interethnic and inter confessional relations in regions of contemporary Russia make possible the realization of comparative analysis of results of independent researches, including the foreign ones, and the study of dynamics of nationalist moods in society for a long-term period. Such methodology is the base for reasonable system of measures on formation of integrative strategies among population of different ethnic and confessional group that are directed on consolidation of multinational society. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.