Great Altai as a unique meeting place and cooperation of the people of greater Eurasia (on the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the international coordinating council «Our Common Home – Altai»)

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Abstract

In the current era of the global crisis of the technogenic-consumer civilization, two forms of false worldview are particularly dangerous — cosmopolitanism and nationalism. The antidote to them is true patriotism, where love for one's own people coexists with respect for other peoples. Of particular importance in these conditions are those regions of the Earth where the borders of many ethnic groups, cultures and religions touch. Such a region is the Greater Altai, where in the course of history different Eurasian peoples have gained a huge positive experience of productive ethno-cultural interaction. This fully applies to the Russian and Turkic-speaking peoples of the Greater Altai. The article also analyzes the principles underlying the modern international cooperation of the Altai peoples under the auspices of International Coordinating Council «Our common home – Altai».