100. Rasporyazheniye Pravitel’stva Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 19.11.2014 № 2321-r, Programma raboty s sootechestvennikami, prozhivauschimi za rubezom, na 2015–2017 gody, http://government.ru/media/files/ZXiQGZwhcwc.pdf.
101. Putin, Opening Address at the World Congress of Russians Abroad.
102. Postanovleniye Pravitel’stva Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 20.06.2011 № 492, “O federal’noy tselevoy programme “Russkiy yazik” na 2011–2015 gody.”
103. Ibid.
104. Goethe-Institut Budapest, http://www.mobile-studios.org/?name=Goethe-Institut%20Budapest; Watanabe Yasushi and David L. McConnell, eds., Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008), p. 228.
105. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Rossiyskoy Federatsii, Obzor vneshney politiki Rossiyskoy Federatsii, http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/sps/3647DA97748A106BC32572AB002AC4DD#%D0%92%D0%92%D0%95%D0%94%D0%95%D0%9D%D0%98%D0%95.
106. Ibid.
107. “War in the Caucasus: Russia Marches into South Ossetia,” Spiegel Online , 8 August 2008, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/war-in-the-caucasus-russia-marches-into-south-ossetia-a-570834.html.
108. Interview with Television Channel Euronews, 31 August 2008, President of Russia, http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/9768.
109. Interview with Television Channel Euronews, 2 September 2008, President of Russia, http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/9771.
110. The Russian Government, http://government.ru/en/department/93/.
111. Russia’s National Security Strategy to 2020, 12 May 2009, http://rustrans.wikidot.com/russia-s-national-security-strategy-to-2020.
112. The document mentions only “increasing effectiveness of protection of rights and interests of Russian citizens abroad.” See Ukaz Presidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 12.05.2009 № 537, “O Strategii natsional’noybezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii do 2020 goda,” http://www.rg.ru/2009/05/19/strategia-dok.html.
113. Federal’nyi zakon ot 23.07.2010 № 179-FZ, O vnesenii izmeneniy v Federal’nyi zakon “O gosudarstvennoy politike Rossiyskoy Federatsii v otnoshenii sootechestvennikov za rubezhom,” http://www.rg.ru/2010/07/27/sootech-dok.html.
114. Shevel, “Russian Nation-building,” p. 192.
115. Cited in Byford, “The Russian Diaspora in International Relations,” p. 720.
116. Shevel, “Russian Nation-building,” p. 195.
117. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Rossiiskoy Federatsii, “Statya stats-sekretariya–zamestitelya Ministra inostrannykh del Rossii G. B. Karasina,” 2010 cited in Shevel, “Russian Nation-building,” p. 195.
118. There are two dozen Russian compatriot organizations in Abkhazia and two in South Ossetia. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Rossiiskoy Federatsii, “Respublika Abkhazia,” 22 May 2014, http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/ns-reuro.nsf/348bd0da1d5a7185432569e700419c7a/3cf2977ad9223f11c3257927003d2f44!OpenDocument, and 22 May 2014, http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/ns-reuro.nsf/348bd0da1d5a7185432569e700419c7a/be2d70933881fb75c32579270040e8a1!OpenDocument.
119. “Executive Order on Establishing a Foundation for Supporting and Protecting the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad,” President of Russia, 25 May 2011, http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/2267.
120. On ruvek.ru see Cheskin, “Russia’s Compatriot Policy.”
121. Ukaz Presidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 07.05.2012 № 605, “O merakh po realizatsii vneshnepoliticheskogo kursa Rossiyskoy Federatsii,” http://kremlin.ru/acts/15256.
122. The 1994 commission: Ministerstvo inostrannykh del Rossiiskoy Federatsii, “O pravitel’stvennoy kommissii po delam sootechestvennikov za rubezhom,” http://www.mid.ru/bdomp/ns-dgpch.nsf/1f19f2b74cd6969ac3257249003e53ae/b3e8a5763d064b64c325768900266323!OpenDocument.
123. The Russian Government, “Government Commission on Compatriots Living Abroad,” http://archive.government.ru/eng/gov/agencies/156/.
124. “Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Participants of the Fourth World Congress of Compatriots,” President of Russia, 26 October 2012, http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/4562.
125. Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, 12 February 2012, http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/0/76389FEC168189ED44257B2E0039B16D.
126. Vladimir Putin, Address to the Federal Assembly, 12 December 2012, http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/4739.
127. Gosudarstvennoy Dumy Federal’nogo Sobraniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 04.04.2014 № 4077–6 GD, “O Federal’nom zakone ‘O vnesenii izmeneniy v stat’i 14 i 27 Federal’nogo zakona “O grazhdanstve Rossiyskoi Federatsii” ’ (proyekt N 417698–6).”
CHAPTER 4. SEPARATISM AND ANNEXATION
Epigraph: “Direct Line with Vladimir Putin,” 17 April 2014, President of Russia, http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/7034.
1. State Statistics Service of Ukraine, 1 January 2015, http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/.
2. Eastern Partnership Index, http://www.eap-index.eu/.
3. Mikheil Saakashvili, “Mikheil Saakashvili: The West Must Not Appease Putin,” Washington Post, 6 March 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mikheil-saakashvili-the-west-must-not-appease-putin/2014/03/06/db9e0c82-a4a9-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html.
4. Matt Frei, “Ukraine Crisis: Echoes of 2008 Russian Invasion of Georgia?” 4News, 3 September 2014, http://www.channel4.com/news/ukraine-crisis-echoes-of-2008-russian-invasion-of-georgia.
5. Thomas de Waal, The Caucasus: An Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 135.
6. Frankie Martin, “The Olympics’ Forgotten People,” CNN, 23 January 2014, http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/23/opinion/martin-olympics-circassians.
7. De Waal, The Caucasus , p. 150.
8. Vicken Cheterian, War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled Frontier (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), p. 189.
9. Charles Upson Clark, Bessarabia (New York), 1927, http://depts.washington.edu/cartah/text_archive/clark/bc_10.shtml#bc_10.
10. Comisia prezidenţială pentru analiza dictaturii comuniste din românia, “Raport final” (Bucharest, 2006), pp. 579–96, http://www.presidency.ro/static/ordine/RAPORT_FINAL_CPADCR.pdf; Leonore A. Grenoble, Language Policy in the Former Soviet Union (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2003), p. 90.
11. Michael Bruchis, “The Language Policy of the CPSU and the Linguistic Situation in Soviet Moldavia,” Europe-Asia Studies 36, no. 1 (1984): 119.
12. Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova, “The Text of the Declaration of Independence Prevails over the Text of the Constitution,” 5 December 2013, http://www.constcourt.md/libview.php?l=en&id=512&idc=7&t=/Overview/Press-Service/News/The-text-of-the-Declaration-of-Independence-prevails-over-the-text-of-the-Constitution/; Bertil Nygren, The Rebuilding of Greater Russia: Putin’s Foreign Policy Towards the CIS Countries (New York: Routledge, 2008), p. 82.
13. Dmytro Levus, “Ukraina i Rossiya: Raznitsa v podkhodakh k Pridnestrovskomu uregulirovaniyu,” 27 April 2014, http://www.ut.ee/ABVKeskus/sisu/kohtumised/2012.04.27/Levus_PMR.doc.
14. Vladislav Grosul, ed., Istoriya Pridnestrovskoy Moldavskoy Respubliki , vol. 2/2 (Tiraspol: Riopgu, 2001), p. 108; Anna Volkova, Referendumy v Pridnestrovskoy Moldavskoy Respublike 1989–2003 (Tiraspol: Tipar, 2005).
15. Aleksandru Boldur, Istoria Basarabiei (Bucharest: Editura Victor Frunză), 1992.
16. Agnia Grigas and Marcel Van Herpen, “The Media Has Swallowed Five Russian Myths That Have Helped Putin Win In Ukraine,” Forbes , 17 September 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/09/17/the-media-has-swallowed-five-russian-myths-that-have-helped-putin-win-in-ukraine/.
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