(Paul Globe – The Jamestown Foundation) The newly released draft of Moscow’s new nationality policy strategy document devotes far more attention to ethnic Russians as the “state-forming” nation than the document it will replace and far less to developing non-Russian nations in the Russian Federation. This document will likely lead Moscow to take actions that will encourage ethnic Russians to think of themselves as the real masters of the situation and to lead non-Russians to conclude that their only reasonable option is to seek independence. Instead of producing the national unity the document’s authors hope for, the new strategy document will likely have the opposite effect, increasing ethnic tensions and possibly leading to the disintegration of the country.
Moscow’s Nationality Policy to Promote Ethnic Russians and Counter Threats From Others – Jamestown
