Linguistic Tools for Nation State Building: The Relationship between Ukraine and Its Russian-Speaking Crimea
Journal: Polish Sociological Review
Year: 2016

While being genuinely multi-ethnic, today the Crimea comprises the majority of ethnic Russians as well as Russian language speakers. According to the 1989 census1, 98% of the Crimeans claimed Russian to be their language of every day communication. Besides, more than 200 years have bound the Crimean peninsula's history with the history of Russia. These two factors when applied to the nation-state building undergoing in Ukraine became a great potential for linguistic antagonism between the Crimea