Academic and university humanitarian science as a means to form the Russian identity: the regional practice of civil patriotic and spiritual moral upbringing

In December 11th-12th Mordovia State University held the 6th International Scientific Conference on Integration of Regional Systems of Education devoted to the 15th anniversary of the Regional Academic Okrug since its establishment. The conference was attended by more than 160 scholars - representatives of the leading university research schools in Russia and abroad: Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Senegal. Below are the abstracts of several papers consistent with our journal's thematics. The work in this direction will be resumed in the issue № 1 in 2009.