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Nikolai Valuyev, MP, athlete
It is no secret and many great people have said
that the most dreadful and unsettled issue in Russia is the ethnic issue.
Because our state is multinational.
We should admit that the Soviet authorities planted a bomb a long time ago,
which shouldn’t explode, I think.
I mean separation according to ethnic belonging and territories.
That is why we face elements of nationalism today.
In general, the Russian Empire was divided according to a very different principles.
But the Constitution of the Soviet state required division into republics.
Today we have a federation.
I hope that special attention will be paid to this issue, special policy, special financing,
as even involvement of foreign laborers is also an ethnic issue.
The recent events in Moscow showed clearly
that society has a demand and an absence of clues as to what will happen next in Russia.
I hope that today on Constitution Day people will mark it differently,
it is also the 20th anniversary of the parliament.
This is a serious date, which means a certain maturation enabling us to look calmly in the future
and not give up our work.
We will hold the Olympics.
Several days are left.
Then we will hold various world championships, the football World Cup.
I think these events will consolidate Russian citizens
and make them think that we are united multinational peoples.
We all love sport and sport is a united idea which deserves existence, I think.