The Meeting of the Finno-Ugric and Russian Worlds

Outputs by Konstantin Zamyatin

Articles, Book Chapters, Papers in Conference Proceedings

2021 'The Formation of Language Policies in Russia’s Republics in the Early 1990s: Ideologies, Interests, Institutions', Sociolinguistics, 6(6), pp. forthcoming.

2021 'Language Policy of Russia: Uralic Languages', in Laakso, J., Skribnik, E. & Bakró-Nagy, M. (eds.), Oxford Guide of Uralic Languages, Oxford University Press (in press; expected August 2021).

2021 (co-authored with V. Laine) 'Russia’s Nationalities Policy Before and After the 2020 Constitutional Amendments: Is the “Ethnic Turn” Continuing?' Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs (UPI Working Papers; no. 125), 14 pp.

2021 (co-authored with E. Arutyunova) 'An Ethnolinguistic Conflict on the Compulsory Learning of the State Languages in the Republics of Russia: Policies and Discourse', The International Journal of Human Rights, 25 (5), pp. 832-52.

2020 'Keelepoliitika mõju Vene Föderatsiooni soome-ugri vabariikides' [The Impact of Language Policy in the Finno-Ugric Republics of the Russian Federation], Soome-ugri sõlmed. Yearbook of Fenno-Ugria 2020, in press (in Estonian).

2020 'The Adoption of Language Policies in the Republics of Russia: Actors, Debates, Decisions', Sociolinguistics, 2(2), pp. 30-66.

2019 'Realizatsiia iazykovoi politiki v finno-ugorskikh respublikakh Rossii: Otsenka effektivnosti = The Implementation of Language Policy in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Russia in the post-Soviet Period: Evaluation of Effectiveness', in Benin, V. L. (ed.), Chelovek. Obshchestvo. Kul'tura. Sotsializatsiia: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi molodezhnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii. Bashkirskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii universitet im. M. Akmully (Ufa, 18-19 aprelia 2019), vol. 2, Ufa: Akmulla Bashkir State Pedagogical University, pp. 119-127.

2019 'Formirovanie iazykovoi politiki v respublikakh Rossii v postsovetskii period: problemy, ideologii, kompromissy = The Formation of Language Policies in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Russia in the Post-Soviet Period: Problems, Ideologies, Compromises', in Bezenova, M. P. (ed.), Finno-ugorskii mir v polietnichnom prostranstve Rossii: kul'turnoe nasledie i novye vyzovy: sbornik statei po materialam VI Vserossiiskoi nauchnoi konferentsii finno-ugrovedov (Izhevsk, 4-7 iunia 2019 g.), Izhevsk: Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature, pp. 245-250.

2018 'A Russian-Speaking Nation? The Promotion of the Russian Language and Its Significance for Ongoing Efforts at the Russian Nation-Building', in Grin, F. & Kraus, P. A. (eds.), The Politics of Multilingualism: Linguistic Governance, Globalisation and Europeanisation, John Benjamins, pp. 39-64.

2018 'Evaluating Language Revival Policies of Russia’s Finno-Ugric Republics: Policy Impact and Its Limits', Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, 64 (1-3), pp. 255-333

2018 'Formirovanie iazykovoi politiki v respublikakh Rossii v postsovetskii period: analiz politicheskogo tsikla = The Formation of Language Policies in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Russia in the Post-Soviet Period: Analysis of a Political Cycle', in Bitkeeva, A. N. & Goriacheva, M. A. (eds.), Iazykovoe edinstvo iiazykovoe raznoobrazie v poliehtnicheskom gosudarstve: Mezhdunarodnaia konferentsiia, Institut iazykoznaniia RАN (Moskva, 14-17 noiabria 2018): Doklady i soobshcheniya, Moscow: Iazyki narodov mira, pp. 193-203.

Papers

29 June 2021
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'The formation of Language Policy in Russia and Its Republics: From History to Present' (in Russian) at the international conference ‘Language Situation and Linguistic Landscape of the National Regions in the 20th and early 21st Century’, Marjani Institute of History, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russian Federation.

19-20 May 2021
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin co-presents paper 'Russia’s Nationalities Policy After the 2020 Constitutional Amendments' (with Veera Laine) at the online conference 'Conflicting Il/liberalisms: Dividing States and Societies in Russia and Beyond', University of Eastern Finland.

23-24 April 2021
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State: Strategies of Diversity Management in Russia' at the conference 'Soviet Heritage 30 years Later: Discourses and Practices', Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russian Federation.

14 April 2021
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin gives online lecture 'Russia’s Language Policy and the Finno-Ugric Peoples' at the Uralic Linguistics course. Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

12 March 2020
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'Language Policy Formation in the Republics of Russia' at the Seventh International Congress of Sociologists of the Turkic World: Eurasia and Global Socioeconomic Change held at the Kazan (Volga) Federal University, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation.

13 December 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents on 'Russia’s Language Policy and Its Projection Abroad' at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland.

30 November 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'Early Soviet National-State Building and Language Policy' at the workshop Proletkult and the Languages of Modernity, IMLR, SAS, University of London.

25 November 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'A "Voluntary-Compulsory Choice": The Teaching of Minority Languages in Russia' in the panel 'Languages in School Education in the Post-Soviet Space: Policies, Discourses, Practices and Public Opinion' at the 2019 ASEEES convention in San Francisco, 23-26 November 2019.

23 October 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents (with E. Arutyunova) the paper 'An Ethnolinguistic Conflict on the Compulsory Learning of the State Languages in the Republics of Russia: Public Policies, Public and Social Media Discourses' at the 19th Annual Aleksanteri Conference 'Technology, Culture, and Society in the Eurasian Space', Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 23-24 October 2019.

11 October 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'The Impact of Official Bilingualism in Ethnic Republics of Russia on Language Attitudes' at the conference 'Indigenous Peoples and Languages in a Globalizing World: Challenges, Opportunities and Threats', Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, Estonia.

23 June 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper ‘Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management: From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State’ at the Russian Readings workshop, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (22-24 June 2019).

13 June 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin gives lecture on the ethnolinguistic situation and ethnic politics in the Mari Republic at the Summer School of the Department of Finnish and Finno-Ugrian Languages, University of Turku, Finland.

11 June 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper ‘A “Voluntary-Compulsory Choice”: The Teaching of Minority Languages in Russia’, Fourth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies: Communities in Flux: Rethinking Sovereignty and Identity in an Era of Change, Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, Tartu University, Estonia (9-11 June 2019).

5 June 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper ‘Policy Formation in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Russia in the Post-Soviet Period: Problems, Ideologies, Compromises’ at the All-Russia Finno-Ugrist conference: The Finno-Ugric World in a Polyethnic Space of Russia: Cultural Heritage and New Challenges, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia (4-7 June 2019).

9 May 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin gives a seminar talk titled ‘Russia’s Language Policy Formation’ at the School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford.

2 May 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management' at the 2019 ASN World Convention, Columbia University, New York (2-4 May 2019).

14 April 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management' at the 2019 BASEES Annual Conference, University of Cambridge (12-14 April 2019).

30 March 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'The Teaching of Minority Languages in Russia' in the 2019 Annual Soyuz Symposium, University of Pittsburgh (29-30 March 2019).

13-15 December 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper ‘A “Voluntary-Compulsory Choice”: Minority Languages to Leave the Urban Schools in Russia’ at the Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) 'Communicating in the City' conference at Leiden University, The Netherlands. See full programme.

16 November 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents on ‘Policy Formation in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Russia in the Post-Soviet Period: an Analysis of A Political Cycle’ at the conference Language Unity and Linguistic Diversity in а Polyethnic Country’, Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 14-17 November 2018. See full programme (in Russian).

24-26 October 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents on 'Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management: From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State' at the 18th Annual Aleksanteri Conference, University of Helsinki.

11 October 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents on 'The Right to Native Language Teaching and the Free Choice of Language Teaching in Russia' at the conference 'Fulfilling Indigenous Peoples’ and Minority Rights to Culture and Language', Senate House, University of London.

• Fulfilling Indigenous Peoples’ and Minority Rights to Culture and Language programme (.pdf)

11 July 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper 'Minority Language Education in Russia: Enforcing the Voluntary Teaching of Non-Russian Languages' (in Russian) at the conference on ‘Principles of Teaching Native Languages and State Languages of Republics of the Russian Federation’, Institute of History, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russian Federation on 11 July 2018.

21 June 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents paper ‘The Russian Language and Russian Nation-Building’ at the workshop Russia and the Russian Worlds: International, Multinational, Transnational, Hatfield College SCR, Durham, 10.30am.

• Russia and the Russian Worlds poster (.pdf)

10-12 June 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents on 'Ethnic Politics and State Building: Power Distribution Along the Ethnic Lines in Ethnic Republics of Post-Soviet Russia' at the Third Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies.

13 March 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin presents on Language Policies in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Post-Soviet Russia:When Language Revival Fails? in the Language & Identity in the Post-Soviet Space seminars (Durham, 4pm).

• Language Policies in the Finno-Ugric Republics of Post-Soviet Russia (.pdf)

Blogs & Lectures

13 June 2019
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin gives lecture on the ethnolinguistic situation and ethnic politics in the Mari Republic at the Summer School of the Department of Finnish and Finno-Ugrian Languages, University of Turku, Finland.

6 September 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin publishes blog post 'A “Voluntary-Compulsory Choice”: The Law on Voluntary Study of Languages in Russia Marks a Policy Shift' for the International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Prague, Czechia.

3 July 2018
Dr Konstantin Zamyatin publishes blog post on 'Minority Language Education in Russia: Enforcing the Voluntary Teaching of Non-Russian Languages' for the International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Prague, Czechia.