Chapter 6: The Impact (or Not) of the War in Ukraine on Russian Minorities and Minorities Policy
Journal: European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online
Year: 2024

Abstract In this article I show how the Russian Federation (Russia) seeks to sustain an impression of business as usual in its minorities policy and administration, while normalising as far as possible the results of its illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. I start with the controversial All-Russian Census, 2020–2021, conducted from October to December 2021, and the disputes concerning its results. Second, I turn to the Fifth Report su