The article defines the type of interethnic and religious relations of youth in the modern Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. The empirical basis of the findings was the pilot and mass questionnaires of youth conducted with the participation of the author in 2017-2019. The asymmetry of interethnic and interfaith distances of Russians, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars is established. The stereotypes of interethnic perceptions, the degree of politicization of ethnic and confessional markers in popular public opinion are revealed. The discrepancy between the ethnic and linguistic identity of youth is revealed. The hierarchy of identities is established and the level of formation of the Russian national youth identity on the Crimean peninsula is revealed. The degree of ethnization of migration problems, reduced in comparison with other regions of the South of Russia, is determined. The similarities and differences of ethnic and confessional identities of the interviewed youth in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, caused by the contrasting level of multi-ethnicity and the economic context of community development, are revealed. The conclusion about the rather weak effectiveness of the information policy, designed to shape the Russian identity of young residents of the Crimean peninsula, is argued. Measures for improving the state information policy in the ethno-political sphere are substantiated.
