Diversified socioeconomic structure of multi-ethnic society as a determinant of ethnopolitical management in Eastern European Countries

The aim of this article is to analyze the diverse socio-economic structure in the Eastern European countries and its impact on ethnopolitical management. The thematic-ethical scope of the research concerns the territorial-temporal space comprising an independent Belarus, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The author investigates this issue by seeking to answer two main research questions: 1) What are the main conditions for the presence and participation of minorities in the socio- economic structure of Eastern European countries? 2) How does the diverse socio-economic structure in multi-ethnic societies translate into ethnopolitical governance? The realization of the above objective is based on the application of a catalogue of research methods, including mainly the following: system analysis, a comparative method, the historical method; the behavioural method, the ethnodemographic method. In the concluding remarks the author states that the possible "omission" by the governments in the subregion of the determinants of ethnopolitical management, i.e. the diverse socioeconomic structure of multi-ethnic societies, is conducive to the ineffectiveness of ethno-politics and facilitates the emergence of ethnic tensions and conflicts, thus threatening the security of individual states and, consequently, the subregion as a whole.