Langues et cultures régionales et minoritaires

Regional and minority languages

Russian minorities fear for languages amid new restrictions

Residents of Russia's republics, which have large minority populations, fear their cultures are under attack after an announcement to significantly scale back the teaching of languages other than Russian.When Anzhela Yausheva was growing up in Kazan, she remembers studying six or seven hours of Tatar language a week. She's not fluent, but the language has a strong cultural significance for...

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