Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Moscow Ready to Use 2020 Census to Split Non-Russian Nations But Not Ethnic Russians
Paul Goble
Staunton, February 12 – Moscow appears ready to use the 2020 census to emphasize divisions within non-Russian nations even as it plays up the unity of the ethnic Russian nation and even more the civic Russian nation, if one takes the words of Academician Valery Tishkov as an indication of the intentions of the authorities.
Tishkov, the former director of the Moscow Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology and a former nationalities minister who serves to this day as a close advisor to Vladimir Putin on ethnic and language issues, suggests as much in an interview with Natalya Rybakova of het Tatar-Inform news agency (sntat.ru/obshchestvo/identichnost-cheloveka-toporom-narubit-na-kusochki-neprosto-valeriy-ti/).
