ON THE ISSUE OF ETHNO-CONFESSIONAL INTERACTION IN XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION

This article is devoted to the modern issues of ethno-confessional interaction in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and based on the materials of the Chinese periodicals. In the research work the development of relationship between the radical population of the region (the Uyghurs preaching Islam and being Sunnites) and the authorities of the People's Republic of China is considered. In the present this situation poses threat of situation destabilization in whole Central Asian. Along direct examples of terrorism acts from Islamic radicals as in the territory of the People's Republic of China and abroad, in the article the role of the USA in creation of the Uyghur separatist organizations is also considered.