Post-Soviet Space as a Language Project: Practices of Linguocultural Construction

The study of language and, more broadly, the cultural construction on the post-Soviet space is directly connected with the problems far beyond the purely linguistic research. The aim of our research was to identify the collective creation and implementation specifics of the post-Soviet language projects: a) different scale (transnational, national, regional, local); b) in the different institutional spheres (politics, education, science, literature, media, family); c) different agents of language policy (state, linguists, writer and media community, political parties and movements). The proposed preprint is focused only on the two regions of the former Soviet Union: Kazakhstan and the Republic of Tyva. However, these regions are chosen by chance: one of them became an independent state, the other is in the borders of the Russian Federation and in the aggregate, analysis of linguocultural situation in these two areas allows affect virtually the entire spectrum of issues specific to the formation of the language policy in the "zone of influence of Russian language."