Etno-Linguistic Conflicts in the Post-Soviet and Eastern Europe Space
Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal
Year: 2015

After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, post-Soviet and Eastern European countries as a whole have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where emotional exchanges over language-related issues and disagreements over language policies â€“ supported by Russia in a covered manner â€“ have led to riots and even military conflicts and secession. In some cases (in Crimea and in Eastern Ukraine) Russia acted in an overt manner by coming to help the Russian-speaking people. Rusisia was giving leg