The main issue for discussion at the round table was the current state of the religious situation in the Lower Volga region (Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov regions) and the technology of stabilization of ethno-confessional relations. The article deals with the problems of ensuring religious security, particularly the identification of religious extremist sentiments, interconfessional tensions in the Lower Volga region. As the mechanisms of stabilization the speakers highlighted the increasing role of national and cultural autonomies of the Lower Volga region in the stabilization of national and religious relations. The materials also present scientific and practical recommendations to the state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to minimize socio-religious risks.

Doroshin Ivan Aleksandrovich, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Saratov State University, 10а, Volskaya st., Saratov, 410056, Russian Federation, e-mail: doroshinia@saratov.gov.ru

Konovalov Ivan Nikolaevich, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Department of History, Political Science and Sociology, Saratov State Law Academy, 16, Volskaya st., Saratov, 410056, Russian Federation, e-mail: i.n.konovalov@mail.ru

Makovsky Andrey Andreevich, Candidate of Sciences (Political Science), Senior Researcher, Department of Management and Administrative Law, Pskov State University, 2, Lenin sq., Pskov, 180000, Russian Federation, e-mail: kaamakovsky@mail.ru

Pankratov Sergey Anatolyevich, Doctor of Sciences (Political Science), Professor, Head, Department of International Relations, Political Science and Regional Studies, Volgograd State University, 100, Universitetsky av., Volgograd, 400062, Russian Federation, e-mail pankratov@volsu.ru

Slobozhnikova Valentina Sergeevna, Doctor of Sciences (Political Science), Professor, Head, Department of History, Political Science and Sociology, Saratov State Law Academy, 16, Volskaya st., Saratov, 410056, Russian Federation, e-mail: slvase@mail.ru

Suslov Ivan Vladimirovich, Candidate of Sciences (Sociology), Associate Professor, Department of History, Political Science and Sociology, Saratov State Law Academy, 16, Volskaya st., Saratov, 410056, Russian Federation, e-mail: suslov85@inbox.ru

Fedorenko Yuriy Yurievich, Head, Division of Monitoring and Analysis of Inter-Confessional Relations, Committee on Ethnic and Cossack Affairs of the Volgograd Region, 5, Raboche-Krestyanskaya st., Volgograd, 400062, Russian Federation, e-mail strannik-3000@yandex.ru

Doroshin I.A., Konovalov I.N., Makovsky A.A., Pankratov S.A., Slobozhnikova V.S., Suslov I.V., Fedorenkov Yu.Yu. “Religious Security in the Lower Volga Region: Current State and Stabilization Technologies”: Materials of the Round Table. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2021, vol. 36, pp. 94-108. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2021.36.94 (in Russian)