Complex sentence: In the Republic of Karelia Karelian has official status as a minority language and since the late 1990s there have been moves to pass special language legislation, which would give Karelian an official status on par with Russian.
Split into simpler sentences: In the Republic of Karelia Karelian has official status as a minority language. Since the late 1990s there have been moves to pass special language legislation, which would give Karelian an official status on par with Russian.