Ethnic processes among the Mordvins today

The article is devoted to analysis of contemporary ethnic processes in the Mordvians. The authors show that the greatest danger to the preservation of the ethnic group as a Mordovians represents ethnic assimilation, which took the trend of depopulation, as well as attempts to separate Mordovians in two nations - erzya and moksha. Our analysis of the ethno-political situation in the Republic of Mordovia shows that the strategic objective in the national politics facing its legislative bodies, should be optimal satisfying the interests of both subethnoses of Mordovian ethnos, including personnel policy. The subsequent implementation of this task will have a positive effect on ethnopsychological installation of Moksha and Erzya as the two parts of single Mordovian nation, accelerate the process of consolidation in the current conditions, cease the intraethnic tension, strengthen the Mordovian statehood. Interethnic relations in the country are largely determined, were determined and will be determined by the ethnic well being of Russian people as if it is an important stone of Russian statehood. Its needs and interests should be fully taken into account in the political, socio-economic and cultural life of Mordovia. The road of disconnecting of anti-Russian path, which urged to stand our enemies is bad, it can not lead to good. And Mordovian people who was consolidating together with the Russian and non-Russian peoples of the multinational Russian state for many centuries, will not go on it, because he clearly understands that only Russia is birthplace and his motherland