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Russian Policy Towards Compatriots: Global, Regional and Local Approaches

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Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas

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After the dissolution of the USSR, Russia developed a policy on compatriots for the 25 million people who were left abroad; a policy that has undergone considerable transformation in the last 20 years. In the 1990s, it was influenced by the general political and economic situation in the country and in the region, by directions and types of migration flows, and by Russia’s interests in preserving its influence over the former Soviet republics. This was done in various ways: from the political mechanisms on the formation of various unions, the creation of particular economic mechanisms and even military intervention. In the armed conflict in Ukraine, again the issue of compatriots has become a focus of discord between the country of origin of the diaspora and the country where the diaspora lives. This chapter discusses peculiarities of the compatriots policy and Russian diasporas’ relations with the Motherland and countries of residence mainly in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region and evaluates the concerns regarding compatriots and the triggers of possible conflict.

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    A special group of people who did not accept the change of regime after the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1920s.

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    Russkie na Ukraine http://www.rus.in.ua/news/8975.html Accessed June 15, 2014.

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    Website of Rossotrudnichestvo (rs.gov.ru/activity_rulang) Accessed June 15, 2016.

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Molodikova, I. (2017). Russian Policy Towards Compatriots: Global, Regional and Local Approaches. In: Nikolko, M., Carment, D. (eds) Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47773-2_10

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