Language policy in the Russian Federation (1991-2021) Authors Miquel Cabal Guarro Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: Russian Federation, language policy, state language, Russification, national minorities, languages in education. Abstract The language policy (LP) that has been implemented in the Russian Federation (RF) over the last thirty years (1991-2021) has been either an extension, a blurry reproduction or a reinterpretation of the LP deployed in the USSR at different stages. The RF is a multinational state with representatives of more than 170 national (or ethnic) groups. As also occurred in Soviet times, the RF has generated discourses that have all too often come into contradiction with the measures put in place for the promotion of Russian and the other languages of the State. With the perspective of the three decades that have passed since the disintegration of the USSR, this paper reviews the main phases and milestones of the RF language policy and, to some extent, it tries to elucidate the future in the light of the strategical lines established by the Russian government for its policy regarding nationalities – lines which emphasize that the Russian language is hierarchically superior to all the other languages of the RF nations. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2021-03-29 Issue No. 32 (2022): L'avaluació de les polítiques lingüístiques Section Secció monogràfica. L’avaluació de les polítiques lingüístiques License Intellectual property Intellectual property in articles belongs to the respective authors. By submitting their articles to TSC to request their publication, authors agree to the following: Authors assign all rights of reproduction, public communication and distribution of articles submitted for publication in TSC to the SCS (a subsidiary of the IEC). Authors are accountable to the SCS for the authorship and originality of their articles. It is the responsibility of authors to obtain permissions to reproduce graphic material sourced from elsewhere and included in their articles. The SCS may not be held liable for any possible violation of intellectual property rights by authors. Material published in TSC is subject - unless otherwise indicated in the text or in graphic material - to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) licence, the full text of which can be found at this link. Accordingly, the general public may reproduce, distribute and communicate the article provided the author and publisher are acknowledged and as long as no commercial or derivative use is made of the article. TSC cannot be held responsible for ideas and opinions as expressed by the authors of articles published in the journal.
