RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AS AN INTERMEDIARY IN THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE STATE AND SOCIETY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problems of ensuring the unity of multi-religious Russian society, the potential of positive experience of the multi-layer and poly-ethnic state, to the problems of ensuring an efficient state management. Religious Islamic organizations, religious leaders, national political and intellectual elites are considered from the point of mediation – as an intermediary in the provision of the state’s and believers’ interests in order to reach a consensus and resist the attempts of destabilization of domestic environment by extremist organizations that use radical, including religious, theories.