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-Good evening, Denga Shufrutdinovitch, my name is is Aleksandr Tabruchanu, Vesti Kavkaza.
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Dear sir, please tell us about the Caucasus. It seems to me that we know practically nothing about it and that we live in a world dreamed up by the mass media.
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The media tell us about a totally different region, our politicians tell us about some different people. It is my first time in the Caucasus and I am astonished that it is not like we see it in Moscow.
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-If I start talking about what is the Caucasus, it will take quite a long time.
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Now you can see how the real image of the Northern Caucasus, in this case Karachay-Cherkessia, differs from the myths and stereotypes that are, with great effort, presented by the mass media in Moscow.
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It is a pity that many journalists there, involved in a race for ratings, for image, forgetting about social responsibility.
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You see, there is a great difference between regional journalists and Moscow ones. It is like two nations, like two different groups.
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The regional journalists are more responsible to the people they live with and they will think twice before presenting information to the reader or audience.
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In Moscow, for instance, especially among the liberal and very comfortably-off journalists, they don't give a damn what they write about people they do not know, religions they do not feel.
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This is a problem of Russia, a problem of the authorities that orientate themselves along the false principal of Freedom of Speech.
I am not against Freedom of Speech, but a word can hurt really deeply.
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Here is an example - that a young man from the Caucasus cannot bear an insult to his mother, sister or wife; an insult to the prophet, who for many people is more than even a mother.
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Journalists orienting themselves on Freedom of Speech can easily say such things, but it takes a long time to heal the wounds.
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The Caucasus is a territory with a great number of such mental wounds, which we are trying to heal.
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Not by proving that we are all good here, but by cooperative work with Russian organizations from Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Rostov, Tatarstan. 25-30% of the young men here are Russian.
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25 % for sure. I think that step by step we will carry on working in this direction and the results will be seen in the near future.
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At least the representative of the Northern Caucasian Federal District, the first deputy Oleinik, Yuri Pavlovich, gave us that hope.
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-Denga Shufrutdinovitch, you yourself were born in the Caucasus in Dagestan.
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What attitude would you like to see from the young people in Russia, and the attitude towards the Russian young men from the Caucasian ones.
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Is it what you hope it is, or is there a border that we cannot yet cross due to some historical or imagined reasons?
- I want both people from Russia and the Caucasus to relate to each other in a more human way.
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Any Christian or Muslim would say that educated, highly spiritual people will find a way to communicate sooner than two uneducated fops obsessed with religion, or nationalism or some other subculture.
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Today there are many subcultures and it happens that this sub-cultural identity outweighs any other identity.
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When I say "in a more human way", I mean that a foundation is set in any religion or tradition that allows the ice to be broken between different peoples.
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I have no problem cooperating with Russians and I do it at the Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
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The problem of international cooperation, in my opinion, is closely linked to the level of education and culture.
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The less a man is educated, the more he is obsessed about his land and ethnicity. I am also patriotic about my land, but I also feel myself a Russian citizen.
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And we try to teach young men in the same vein: first we are citizens of Russia, and only then we are a part of some ethnic group.
But to strengthen this feeling we must be educated, know at least three languages: our native language, Russian of course and some other language, English or French or Chinese.
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We don't have to feel ourselves citizens of the world but we must feel well in ourselves and be able to make a career in any part of the country and be useful for yourself, the region and the country.
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That is how we "charge" them and they understand us. We are also using emotional arguments: this is a small place, the competition for employment is high.
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Unfortunately, non-objective factors influence the applications for work.
Prepare yourself for working in any part of the country. And that is why you have to be a bit more educated.
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You must act in such a way, so that people will take you as an example and not estrange themselves.
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