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The “Imperial Minority”: An Interpretative Framework of the Russians in Kazakhstan in the 1990s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sébastien Peyrouse
Sébastien Peyrouse*
Affiliation:
The Central Asia Caucasus Institute, SAIS, John Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA. Email: [email protected]
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This paper is devoted to the Russian minorities living in Central Asia (nearly 10 million people in 1989, about 5.5 million today), and more specifically to the Russians living in Kazakhstan, who constitute the main Russian minority in the near abroad, apart from Ukraine. Unlike the Russians living in the other Central Asian republics, Russians in Kazakhstan created political parties. Kazakhstan even experienced some significant secessionist trends in the mid-1990s. Today, the political, social and economic situation of the Russian minority is rather different. Since about 2 million Russians have left the country, those who remain have tried to find their niche within the economic growth that Kazakhstan has experienced since the 2000s. The political parties and associations that represented the interests of the Russian minority have largely disappeared from the political scene. The “Russian question” no longer threatens to destabilize the territorial integrity of the country.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 105 - 123
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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