Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2016 9) 940-952 ~ ~ ~ УДК 314.727 Migration as a Factor of Regional Ethnic Policy in Siberian Federal District Leonid V. Savinov* Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Siberian Institute of Management 6 Nizhegorodskaya Str., Novosibirsk, 630102, Russia Received 19.09.2015, received in revised form 04.12.2015, accepted 27.02.2016 The article deals with the conceptual issues of migration regional policy in the Siberian Federal District. <...> The main challenges of the study are uncovered in the context of federal policy; regional specifi city of national policy is indicated. <...> The myths related to migration processes and the reality associated with the economy of modern Russia and its urgent needs for migrant workers are considered. <...> Unfortunately, in the framework of foreign academic studies we couldn’t fi nd good responses to the challenges of global migration processes. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: savinov@sapa.nsk.su # 940 # increasingly question the basic foundations of multiculturalism as a state policy in the sphere of the interethnic relations, as well as the civil (political in its nature) and cultural integration in the context of new realities. <...> There is criticism of multiculturalism in one of programme articles by Vladimir Putin “Russia: the National Question” (Putin, 2012). <...> That is why the leading ethnopolitologists offer alternative models of dealing with the so-called “national question”. <...> From the latest innovations, the model of interculturalism, supported and developed for the Russian conditions by E.A. Pain, calls attention. <...> According to this attitude, “interculturalism suggests the existence of common interests between citizens of different nationalities and religions, united Leonid V. Savinov. <...> Migration as a Factor of Regional Ethnic Policy in Siberian Federal District by the common civil liability for their country” (Pain, 2011). <...> Very similar to this view, according to the Russian ethnopolitologist, interculturalism is interpreted in the multi-authored monograph of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) (Interculturalism, 2011). <...> In this connection, a scientifi c discussion interculturalism and its about the essence of differentiation with ideology and social practice of internationalism of the Soviet period seems relevant. <...> Or is it really a new concept in the theory and practice of ethnic policy and solving problems related to migration? <...> In general, any model of ethnic policy, whether it is monoculturalism, multiculturalism <...>