<div dir="ltr"><div>Aidan,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry, but after I contacted the tech people at Penn, Ionly got error messages from them, but not even a personal</div><div>response. 'All I can say is please be patient.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Hal S.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:24 AM Aidan Pine <<a href="mailto:aidanpine@shaw.ca">aidanpine@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Harold,<br>
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Any update on being able to unsubscribe?<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
Aidan<br>
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Subject: [lg policy] Andrey Petrov on Vesti.FM: Azerbaijani and Ukrainian will not cease to be the official languages of Russia<br>
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Andrey Petrov on Vesti.FM: Azerbaijani and Ukrainian will not cease to be<br>
the official languages of Russia<br>
8 Dec in 17:20<br>
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The state status of republican languages in Russia does not depend on the<br>
relations of the Russian Federation with those countries where these<br>
languages are spoken and, in particular, are official, the senior analyst<br>
of Vestnik Kavkaza, Andrey Petrov, said in the National Question program on<br>
Vesti.FM, speaking about the issue of preserving the culture of the<br>
post-Soviet countries in Russia, often questioned by political opponents<br>
from the Baltic states and Ukraine.<br>
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First of all, the analyst recalled that Russia is a country of the most<br>
liberal language policy. “Not everyone knows that there are more than 30<br>
state languages in Russia, and this includes the official languages of<br>
foreign countries. In 64 regions, there is only one such language -<br>
Russian, but in 21 regions - in the republics - indigenous languages also<br>
have the status of state languages. Perhaps this is due to our legislation,<br>
according to which the republics in the Federation have a special form of<br>
statehood of the Russian peoples: they live according to their own<br>
constitutions, which, as a result, allows them to establish their own state<br>
languages along with Russian, ” he said.<br>
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“For today's topic, Dagestan and Crimea are the most interesting regions.<br>
In most republics, the second state language is one — Mari in Mari El,<br>
Buryat in Buryatia, Ingush in Ingushetia, Chuvash in Chuvashia, and so on,<br>
in Mordovia and Kabardino-Balkaria there are two official languages, in<br>
Karachay-Cherkessia there are four, and in Dagestan, the Constitution<br>
establishes that the languages of all Dagestan peoples are state. De facto,<br>
we are talking only about 13 languages that have written form, including<br>
the official language of a foreign state - Azerbaijani, ” Andrey Petrov<br>
said, adding that the case of the Azerbaijani language is a good example of<br>
the Russian language policy.<br>
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"Azerbaijanis are the indigenous people of Dagestan, a third of the<br>
population of the well-known Derbent are Azerbaijanis. Azerbaijani was once<br>
the language of interethnic communication in the south of the region,<br>
therefore, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Azerbaijan turned out to be<br>
a foreign state for Russia, no discussions arose what to do with its<br>
language. Azerbaijani has become the Russian state language together with<br>
other languages of the peoples of Dagestan, because in Russia the language<br>
issue is resolved simply: people have the right to speak, write and read in<br>
their native language if they want, including in the schools, media and<br>
official documents. The Azerbaijani people declared independence, but the<br>
Dagestan Azeris did not cease to be Russians and have the same rights as<br>
other Russian peoples, ”the senior analyst explained.<br>
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The same policy was applied to Crimea when the republic became the part of<br>
Russia. “The Crimean constitution proclaimed Russian, Ukrainian, and<br>
Crimean-Tatar state languages, and when Crimea and Sevastopol became<br>
subjects of the Russian Federation, all that remained. Crimean-Tatar, in<br>
fact, first received the status of the state language, since unitary<br>
Ukraine has only one official language. The status of Ukrainian as the<br>
state language of Russia is not disputed by anyone, despite the complexity<br>
of the Russian-Ukrainian relations and the fact that for more than 20 years<br>
Ukrainian has been a foreign language. This status will not be changed in<br>
the future: Ukrainians are now one of the indigenous peoples of our country<br>
and have the right to speak, write and read in their native language, ”<br>
Andrey Petrov said.<br>
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He also noted that this right is enshrined in Article 26 of the 2nd chapter<br>
of the Russian Constitution: “Everyone has the right to use his native<br>
language and to a free choice of language of communication, education,<br>
upbringing and creativity.”<br>
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- Crimea <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/crimea" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/crimea</a>><br>
- Vesti FM <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Vesti" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Vesti</a> FM><br>
- Russia and Ukraine <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Russia" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Russia</a> and Ukraine><br>
- Russia and Azerbaijan <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Russia" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Russia</a> and<br>
Azerbaijan><br>
- Russian language <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Russian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Russian</a> language><br>
- Andrey Petrov <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Andrey" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Andrey</a> Petrov><br>
- Azerbaijani language <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Azerbaijani" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Azerbaijani</a><br>
language><br>
- National Question <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/National" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/National</a> Question><br>
- Ukrainian language <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Ukrainian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Ukrainian</a> language><br>
- Crimean-Tatar language <<a href="http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Crimean-Tatar" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://vestnikkavkaza.net/tags/Crimean-Tatar</a><br>
language><br>
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