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Kyrgyzstan signs bill to make Kyrgyz the state language, Russia says this is "not entirely democratic" (globalvoices.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Soviet language policies undermined the development and prestige of Kyrgyz by turning it a “low” language used mainly at domestic and folklore purposes. For science, art, governance, and literature, the local elites used the “high” Russian language. Since independence, the former member state of the Soviet Union adopted three national programs for developing Kyrgyz.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are they going to do? Invade Kyrgyzstan too? To "liberate" the Russian speakers from the "nazi" Kyrgyz government?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dont give them ideas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think they could handle another front.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can't even handle one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real - they proved themselves to be the third best army in Ukraine, and then the second best army in Ukraine got pissed off, decided to march on Moscow, and got within 100km of the Kremlin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

within 100km of the Kremlin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/24/russia-wagner-visual-timeline/

This says that they got as far as Yelets. That's 392 km from the Kremlin, according to Google Maps.

But, yes, general point stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they gotta be running pretty low on farm boys at this point. Putins gonna wipe out an entire generation of men if he keeps this up. Not good for the long term health of a nation. But I doubt he ever thinks past next month.