But statistics can be misleading: what Mr Agarin quite rightly highlights is that there is plenty of room for improvement in bringing all the citizens and residents of the region more fully into their countries' political, cultural and social mainstreams.
In the aftermath of these catastrophes and the worldwide revulsion they occasioned, not least against the European colonial powers, various mainstreams of 20th-century political philosophy may be discerned.
Another clear connection between the comic-book and rock mainstreams is the outlandish characters of the greatest rock stars.
Generally speaking, culture operates within the mainstreams of power.
It's a wonderful place, but I've also heard that the huge costs of building the hall — which were, following the economic collapse in 2008, entirely born by the public purse — and consequently high costs of booking its facilities have polarised the city's diverse music scene, driving a wedge between the experimental fringe and the rock and classical mainstreams.
As recently as five years ago, such a winsome, even kittenish, tone, and such graphic and typographic interventions were rare in mainstreams novels.
Yet in the way in which her music consistently sidesteps mainstreams, celebrates collective creativity and embraces many notions of what freedom is, Bley's work is inhabiting a different world to any establishment, American or otherwise.
In India, however, it fitted into what was then, and remains today, one of the mainstreams of production in the place that Indians, conflating Bombay and Tinseltown, affectionately call Bollywood.
We live in a world of multiple mainstreams and countless counter-, sub- and counter-sub-cultures. Bondaroff's brand is built on both the sort of microfame that such a finely cut cultural landscape enables and on his absolutely exquisite ability to analyze that landscape.
Prada mainstreams hipness.
"It's a first-time process of adding a sport to New York City, which mainstreams disabled athletes with able-bodied athletes," said Dick Traum, president of the Achilles Track Club, which is primarily a running club for the disabled and is co-sponsoring the event.
