Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the Council for Interethnic Relations 2013-02-18 15:00:00 The meeting will discuss implementation of the National Ethnic Policy Strategy through to 2025. Also on the agenda will be preserving and developing the spiritual and cultural potential of Russia’s multi-ethnic people, and the role the humanities can play in studying the centuries-old experience of interaction between Russia’s different peoples. Officials from the Presidential Executive Office and the federal executive bodies, along with ethnic community leaders, heads of public organisations, and members of the expert community, will take part in the meeting. The Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations was established following the Presidential Executive Order of May 2012 On Ensuring Interethnic Unity. The same Executive Order instructed the Presidential Executive Office and the Government to draft a National Ethnic Policy Strategy, which was approved last December. The meeting will take place at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre. Mr Putin will visit the museum’s exhibits before the meeting begins. The museum has spaces for permanent and temporary exhibitions, a library, a research centre, conference facilities, a children’s centre, and a café serving kosher food.