Arutyunova E. M. (2020) Language Problems as Viewed by Russians: Actualization and New Contexts. Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes. No. 4. P. 521—532. (In Russ.)

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Abstract

The article analyzes the modern  problems related to the recent language  policies  and  practices  in  Russia.  The   study is based on the data from a nation - wide survey of a representative sample  conducted by VCIOM and commissioned  by the Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs, as  well as materials of sociological studies  carried out by the Center  for the Study of  Inter-Ethnic Relations  (Russian Academy  of Sciences) in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan  and Sakha (Yakutiya). The paper actualizes the issues related to the status of the  ethnic  Russians   and  the  Russian  language in social and political context and  shows that in terms of all-Russian civic  identity the Russian language is crucial  to almost half of Russians, being second  only to the state in general. The author  concludes that the Russian language as  an essential part of the all-Russian civic  identity is more important to the ethnic  Russians   than  to  people  of  other  ethnicities, and strengthening its positions  within the legal framework can have an  unsettling impact on interethnic accord.  In terms of language contradictions in education the article reveals that voluntary  study of a republic’s state  languages  is a  dominant setting in  the views of Russian  citizens , and it was examined for the first  time using a Russian nationwide sample.