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National Minority and the Rule of Law: The Case of Tatars and Tatar Language in Contemporary Russia
Type of publication
Straipsnis kitame recenzuojamame leidinyje / Article in other peer-reviewed edition (S5)
Type of publication (old)
S4
Author(s)
Lyapina, Elmira |
Title
National Minority and the Rule of Law: The Case of Tatars and Tatar Language in Contemporary Russia
Publisher
Vilnius: Mykolo Romerio universitetas, 2019
Date Issued
2019
Is part of
International Comparative Jurisprudence. ISSN 2351-6674, 2019, Vol. 5, No 2
Field of Science
Abstract
In July 2017, during a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations, in the framework of the Strategy of Russia’s national policy the Russian president declared that children should not be forced to study indigenous languages in the national republics of Russia. In November of the same year, the Republic of Tatarstan’s Parliament abolished compulsory study of Tatar language in schools, contrary to the Constitution of Russia and its Federal legislation providing equal legal statuses to Russian and Tatar languages in the Republic of Tatarstan. Tatars, being a Turkic nation with Islamic views, are the second largest ethnic population in Russia, where the dominant vector of national identity is orthodox and Slavic. Recently, the issue of Tatar identity and Tatar language is under pressure from political discourse which prevails over the legal order, and which may lead to a decrease in the level of multiculturalism in the country. The author concludes that the Rule of Law is at risk since the rights of minorities to an education in their native language, which are guaranteed not only by international treaties but also by the Constitution and Federal law of Russia, are being disregarded or opted out of by the new Law on Education in Russia.
Type of document
type::text::journal::journal article::research article
ISSN
2351-6674
Language
Anglų / English (en)
Access Rights
Atviroji prieiga / Open Access