The fine-sounding declarations of support for the diversity of peoples and languages are, in reality, set against a backdrop of obsessive political and linguistic Russification, xenophobia and racism,…

The fine-sounding declarations of support for the diversity of peoples and languages are, in reality, set against a backdrop of obsessive political and linguistic Russification, xenophobia and racism, and the unchecked expansion of ultra-nationalist movements such as the ‘Russian Community’.

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