liliya solatovna one of the main topics of the forum was support for the multinational culture of russiateps are being taken in this direction? can the law on intangible ethnocultural property adopted at the initiative of senators be considered one of such steps? yes, indeed, the forum that took place in dagestan, perhaps, became one of the most colorful, meaningful in their agenda with an amazing cultural program. 400 forum participants represented 50 regions of the russian federation and this year the forum became truly international, since there were participants from foreign countries, they represented the caspian states, as well as tajikistan and belarus. of course, if we talk about legislation, then the long-awaited law developed on the platform of the federation council, and the intangible cultural heritage of the peoples of the russian federation, is one of the multinational culture, but directly returning to the topic of the forum, i would like to note that within the framework of the work of the section, a lot of interesting, specific proposals were made for the preservation of