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Photo: Albert Razin on the 12.06.2019. Photo by Valeri Huriahmetov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A national debate on minority cultural rights is the backdrop to the death of an academic in the Russian republic of Udmurtia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published in<\/span>\u00a0openDemocracy<\/a><\/div>\n
Damelya Aitkhozhina<\/a><\/div>\n
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On 10 September, a 79-year-old sociologist, Albert Razin, picketed the local parliament in Izhevsk, the capital of western Russia\u2019s Udmurt Republic. Razin held a placard reading \u201cDo I have a motherland?\u201d and a quote from a well-known Soviet Avar poet, Rasul Gamzatov: \u201cIf tomorrow my language will be forgotten, I am ready to die today.\u201d Then he set himself on fire. He\u00a0died in a hospital a few hours later<\/a>, with burns on over 90% of his body.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For years, Razin, an ethnic Udmurt, had tried to bring attention to what he viewed as the perilous situation for his native language and cultural heritage from changes in Russian laws and policies.<\/p>\n

Razin was one of several academics who\u00a0signed an open letter<\/a>\u00a0in June 2018 against a proposed amendment to the national education law, which would end mandatory\u00a0instruction in native languages for republics and other areas that have two or more official or state languages.<\/p>\n

The Russian Parliament adopted the amendments, and President Vladimir Putin signed them into law in August that year. Under the law, if a student in any of these regions designates Russian as their native language, they don\u2019t have to study the other regional language. This means that in Udmurtia, for example, where Udmurt and Russian are the official languages, if students choose to indicate their native language as Russian, they are no longer required to study Udmurt language, and they receive extra tuition in Russian. And all students, irrespective of their native languages, have to complete extensive\u00a0compulsory study of Russian language and literature and pass the Russian state language exam.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>. (hrw.org, 12.09.2019)<\/p>\n

See the last interview with Albert Razin (with English subtitles)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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