Russian language in Central Asia: current status and prospects

Евдокимов, А. Н.; Давыдова, Т. А.; Савкин, Д. А.

doi:10.24975/2313-8920-2020-7-3-373-388

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“…In Uzbekistan, Russian is widely used not only in private life, but also in public institutions. According to certain estimates (Evdokimov, Davydova and Savkin 2020), the Russian-speaking percentage of CA states' populations comprises 84% in Kazakhstan, 49% in Kyrgyzstan, 41% in Uzbekistan, 33% in Tajikistan, and 18% in Turkmenistan (see Fig. 1).…”

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Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Dadabaev

Sonoda

2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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In this article, we argue that Central Asian (CA) states' approach to the Ukrainian crisis should be defined as strategic silence. Such foreign policy reflects how CA's ideological and geographic factors and a shared information space, largely dominated by Russian and Russian-language media, facilitate the understanding of historical continuity among Russian and CA leaders. However, we also demonstrate that CA public officials' and general public's uses of strategic silence reflect the complicated reality of CA states. Their leaders and populations are cognizant of both their dependence on educational and labor opportunities in Russia and their necessity for postwar coexistence with Russia, China, and other states that are not sympathetic to the intentions of the European Union/USA in CA. Therefore, strategic silence is an approach for CA states to voice their disagreement with Russia's approach to Ukraine while avoiding being victimized by Russia and its allies for an openly anti-war stance.

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Section: Russian Sources Of Information and Ca Public Opinionmentioning

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Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Dadabaev

Sonoda

2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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“…Research information base. As an information background of the research the statistics from the website demoscope.ru 4 wasusedon the ethnic composition and native language of the population of the Soviet republics on the results of the last All-Union Population Census of 1989, the All-Russian Population Census of 2010 5 ,as well as statistics on the ethnic composition and native language of the population of other countries of the post-Soviet space based on the results of population censuses held in the first and early second decade of the 21st, presented on the website PopulationstatisticsofEasternEurope & formerUSSR 6 , official statistical sites of states 7 , in collections and analytical reports 8 .…”

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Russian as a native language in the post-Soviet space in comparison with the results of the 1989 census

Манаков

2021

Pskov Region Studies Journal

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In the post-Soviet period, there was a significant narrowing of the Russian language distribution space. The aim of the study is to identify the changes that have taken place since the collapse of the Soviet Union at the level of the post-Soviet countries in the number and proportion of people who named Russian their native language. The novelty of this study is based on the level of regions in the post-Soviet space and the analysis of the dynamics of such indicators as to the share of the non-Russian population, who named Russian their native language. Almost all post-Soviet states experienced a decrease in the number and share of the Russian-speaking population. Currently, the minimum indicators of the proportion of Russians and Russian-speaking people are characterized by the states of Transcaucasia, as well as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The biggest losses in the post-Soviet period of both the Russian and Russian-speaking population, in relative terms, were experienced by Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. A special dynamics of these indicators have developed in two states — in the Republic of Belarus and Ukraine. In these countries, the part of the biethnic population that adopted the identity of the titular ethnic group retained the Russian language. Russian, for example, has declined more rapidly in Ukraine than in the categories of people who consider Russian as their native language, and this has led to a decline in the number and share of the Russian population. The situation in the Republic of Belarus, which is unique in the post-Soviet space, was the result of the 1995 referendum that established the status of the state language for Russian. As a result, along with the decrease in the Russian population in the Republic of Belarus, there has been a significant increase in the category of citizens who named Russian their native language.

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Russian language in Central Asia: current status and prospects

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Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Silence is golden? Silences as strategic narratives in Central Asian states' response to the Ukrainian crisis

Russian as a native language in the post-Soviet space in comparison with the results of the 1989 census

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