Russian diaspora, russification, Soviet era, Russian Federation, diasporic communities, influence politics, passportization policy, Russian cultural identity, Russian speakers outside Russia, Russian emigration
The Russian diaspora has a long history of exile and emigration, with 25 million Russians living outside the Russian Federation after 1991. Russia has maintained influence over these communities through various means.
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[...] It is then possible to ask oneself: How can this very large but very diverse population be used for purposes of influence? To intensify Russian cultural power all around the world, Russia has been working in this direction through various political initiatives since the early 2000s: - Since 2001, Putin has addressed Russians living outside Russian borders and maintained a vocabulary around the theme of "compatriots abroad" aimed at strengthening this Russian identity and cultural unity"9; - In the 2010s, the government implemented a policy of passportization destined for foreign Russian citizens in priority, with official presentation by the President himself10 ; - From a geopolitical point of view, identity is reaffirmed by the exclusion of what is not Russian. [...]
[...] - Finally, the last category of Russians outside of Russia are the dissidents. Among the more well-known examples of Russian dissidents: Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, who spent 20 years in exile (between 1974 and 1994), due to his writings on the Russian governmental structure and its occupations, which disturbed the authorities4. In this same category, we also find the refuseniks : Soviet citizens of Jewish confession to whom the visa was refused for traveling to Israel). They composed an important part of the migration to the United States, settled in Brooklyn in the Little Odessa5. [...]
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