title: The Russian question in the post-soviet period
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Тeurtrie, David
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T12:53:47Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T12:53:47Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-03
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Teurtrie D. The Russian question in the post-soviet period. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 1, pp. 43–56.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.104
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6362
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article examines the geopolitical dimension of the existence of several million Russians and Russian-
  speakers outside the Russian Federation in the light of the Ukrainian crisis. Special attention is
  paid to the demographic and identity components that affect Russian relations with the Russian-speaking
  community abroad. Despite a policy of de-Russification in certain countries (particularly Estonia,
  Latvia and Ukraine), the Russian language retains a primary role in Eastern post-Soviet Europe. In
  the southern part of the former USSR (“Eurasian Balkansˮ), the Russian-speaking community is a
  minority that has experienced a strong demographic decline, although the Russian language retains
  the role of a lingua franca. The Russian-speaking identity is a legacy of the Soviet cultural project and
  of the more ancient existence of the Russian (East Slavic) supranational identity. The majority of the
  Russian-speaking population, despite ambiguous relations with Moscow, is in favour of maintaining
  close relations and open borders with Russia. Attempts to overcome the syndrome of “divided nationˮ by interstate regional integration and by the promotion of the concept of a Russian world are faced
  with the political course of the national elites of the new independent States and geopolitical ambitions
  of Western powers. The Russian Orthodox Church is an important institution interested in promoting
  the idea of a Russian world. However, the problem of the emergence of international borders, dividing
  the Russian and Russian-speaking population, is one of the factors of separatism in the former Soviet
  Union. After the “reunificationˮ of Crimea with Russia, armed conflict in the Donbas is a tragic consequence
  of confrontation in Ukraine between two geopolitical and cultural-linguistic projects. The
  author concludes that the existence of the Russian-speaking supranational identity is not only a challenge
  for the new independent States, but also an important component in relations between Russia
  and its “compatriots abroadˮ. Refs 19. Tables 3.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian World
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-speaking population
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian population abroad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia’s foreign policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Geopolitics of Russia’s near abroad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Russian question in the post-soviet period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 04-Teurtrie.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/6362/1/04-Teurtrie.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 684,37 kB