The model of ethnological monitoring of multiethnic societies and regions has been developed consisting of 46 indicators by seven major categories. Ten commissioned studies by leading experts from post-Soviet states and regions of Russia are in a process of research and followed up monitoring. An English version of the summary report has been presented for the MOST secretariat and short English abstracts of the monographs are put on the website the project.
Full texts are available on the project website in Russian.
The MOST monographs will be based on primary local data covering comprehensive statistics, documentation, sociological surveys and opinion polls, press analysis, personal included observations and interviews, and recent research literature. All data will be related to the most recent developments as well as to some historic references. Analysis will be carried out impartial and objective combined with clarity and consistency of description. The written texts will not exceed 90 pages for the Russia s regions and 110 pages for the country s analysis. The data gathering stage will be completed by July 1998 and the texts presented for editing and publishing by the schedule approved by the coordinator of the project.