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Studies in contemporary Russia

Part I. Russian as a communicative tool: Lingua franca, intermediator or something else?: Introduction: The Russian language away from metropolis: challenges of pluricentric development / Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova, Maria Yelenevskaya

1. The History of Internationalization of the Russian Language / Vladimir M. Alpatov

2. Democratization of the Russian Language / Arto Mustajoki

The Russian-language legacy: 3. language policy in relation to the Russian language in Georgia before and after dissolution of the Soviet Union / Kakha Gabunia, Ketevan Gochitashvili

4. Russian in Armenia: Between Thriving and Surviving / Suren T. Zolyan, Karen S. Hakobyan

5. Russian in Azerbaijan: Changing Practices and Emerging Paradigms / Jala Garibova

6. Variability in the Russian Diaspora Speech of Estonia / Jelisaveta Kostandi, Irina Külmoja, Oksana Palikova

7. The Russian Language in Latvia: The Historic Linguistic Situation / Pavels Jurs, Alida Samusevica

8. The Russian Language of the Lithuanian Republic as Reflected in Mass Media Discourse / Birute Sinochkina

9. The Russian Language in Belarus and Ukraine / Jan Patrick Zeller, Dmitri Sitchinava

10. The Russian Language in Kazakhstan in the 21st Century / Damina Shaibakova

11. Russian Language in Kyrgyzstan: Status, Functioning and Collisions between Languages / Mamed D. Tagaev, Ekaterina Protassova

Part III. The Russian-Speaking Diaspora: 12. The Russian Language in France: from the Russian Community to the National Education System / Irina Kor Chahine

13. Russian in Germany / Katharina Hamann, Kai Witzlack-Makarevich, Nadja Wulff

14. Russian and its Speakers in Finland / Johanna Viimaranta

15. The Russian Language in Canada / Veronika Makarova

16. The Russian Dialects Outside Russia: The Situation in South America / Olga Rovnova

17. Connected by Digital Imagination: Discourses of Belonging and Community Building of Russophone Migrants in the USA and Great Britain / Oksana Morgunova (Petrunko), Renat T. Zinnurov

Part IV. New Trends in the Russian Language Teaching: 18. Heritage Russian in the US and the New Type of Pluricentricity in the Context of Immigration / Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan

19. Family Language Policy, Russian Language Use, Maintenance and Transmission in Cyprus and Sweden / Natalia Ringblom, Sviatlana Karpava

20. Russian As A Foreign Language Education in Japanese High Schools: A Multilingual Education Policy on the Margin / Sachiko Yokoi Horii

Index.

Russian language > Former Soviet republics.

Russian language > Foreign countries.

Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics.