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Language Policy and Power Politics in Post-Soviet Tatarstan

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Discusses changes in policies on the status of Tatar language in the Russian Federation’s Republic of Tatarstan since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when Tatarstan signed a declaration of sovereignty with the central government in Moscow that allowed the republic to form its own local government and implement its own language policy. The examination focuses especially on attempts at nation-building in post-Soviet Tatarstan through status-planning language policies and on the way power-politics between the Federation’s central government and the Republic’s government have affected the outcome of those policies.

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    http://old.kpfu.ru/f10/publications/2004/articles_1_1.php?id=5&num=4000000

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    http://1997-2011.tatarstan.ru/00001296c.html

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    http://1997-2011.tatarstan.ru/index.php?DNSID=aba5709f13e337efe5f9ba87c8df8d3a&node_id=1003

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    http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=19920&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=219#.U_xwN7dOVi4

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    http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=19920&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=219#.U_xwN7dOVi4

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    http://www.gazeta.ru/2002/11/15/tatarlisauta.shtml

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    http://19972011.tatarstan.ru/index.php?DNSID=a0183535e6f67e5d61bbce7609240eec&node_id=992

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    A bilateral treaty was drawn up between Moscow and Tatarstan in February 1994 that finally recognized the sovereign status of Tatarstan. The original document was entitled ‘Treaty on the Delimitation of Jurisdictional Subjects and Mutual Delegation of Authorities between the State Bodies of Power of the Russian Federation and the State Bodies of Power of the Republic of Tatarstan’. This treaty-type agreement became known as the ‘Tatarstan Model’ (Iskhakov 1997; Sharafutdinova 2003; Graney 1999 and 2009). The treaty was an asymmetrical, power -sharing agreement that allowed Tatarstan more political freedom to pursue economic and cultural ties abroad.

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    http://www.rt-online.ru/aticles/rubric-72/41712/

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    Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on November 16, 2004, in Rossiskaia Gazeta, November 23, 2004.

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    http://www.ng.ru/regions/2012-12-24/100_graphics.html

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    http://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/72417/

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Wigglesworth-Baker, T. (2018). Language Policy and Power Politics in Post-Soviet Tatarstan. In: Andrews, E. (eds) Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70926-0_5

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