Language Management and Language Problems in Belarus: Education and Beyond

This article provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Belarus.  It summarizes language policy and legislation, and deals in more detail with language management and selected language problems in Belarusian education. It also contributes to the work on language planning by applying Jernudd’s and Neustupny’s Language Management Theory, particularly theconcept of the language management […]

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World War II Memory Politics: Jewish, Polish and Roma Minorities of Belarus

The aim of this study is to interpret recent trends in contemporary memory politics in Belarus, with focus on the Holocaust, Roma genocide memorials, and the memorial sites of the Polish minority in Belarus. It analysis contemporary Belarusian memory politics with respect to World War II, through the examination of the Soviet period.

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Hungarian National Minority of Ukraine: Legal and Practical Aspects of Realisation of Minority Rights

The Hungarian community which lives in Ukraine transformed into a national minority as a result of the creation of a series of nation states on the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after World War I. The Hungarian minority in Ukraine is relatively small (156.2 thousand people) but at the same time a regional national […]

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