Ivan Boyko

The article presents the views of 30 experts on a number of national policy problems in the Chuvash Republic. According to experts, friendly, conflict-free interethnic and interconfessional relations prevail in Chuvashia, rare cases of negative interethnic contacts are characteristic of everyday situations, most often related to the use of native languages. The possibility of interethnic conflicts is considered as unlikely. They may be associated with potentially ill-conceived actions in the sphere of linguistic and other ethno-cultural interests of representatives of individual peoples. According to experts, preservation and improvement of good-neighborly relations between representatives of certain ethnic groups are greatly influenced by the verified national policy and successful economic development of the republic. Some experts support the opinion which prevails among the republic population on the negative impact of labor migrants on the labor market opportunities for the old-...

The article discusses the estimates made by Chuvashia’s population of different aspects of interethnic and inter-confessional relations in the Republic. For this purpose, the materials of the population sociological survey were used, more than 600 residents of the Republic took part in the survey, their distribution by sex, age and place of residence was taken into account. The study was carried out by the Chuvash State Institute of Humanities. In a number of cases, data obtained during 2018 and 2019 studies were used. Negative elements of inter-ethnic relationships, manifested in negative statements about people of other nationalities, real manifestations of such negative relationships are examined. It is shown that such inconveniences are not common, and they were noted by a small number of respondents. An absolute majority of respondents give a positive assessment to inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations, which is consistent with data obtained in earlier surveys. The conc...

The article discusses some of the problems of language policy in the Chuvash Republic. Attention is paid to the Chuvash language teaching in educational institutions after the adoption of republican legislation on languages in 1990. This process was not simple, it was accompanied by a lack of understanding of the necessity of studying the Chuvash language in the regions of the republic where Russian population predomiates over the Chuvash one. For more than a quarter of a century, considerable experience has been gained in the organization and methods of teaching the Chuvash language, and despite the fact that it has barely become more widely spoken, it has become more familiar at the domestic and public levels. The transition to the voluntary learning of native languages began in the second half of 2017 and was accompanied by organizational difficulties. The article also gives opinions of the Chuvash language teachers on the problems of its teaching and usage in the family and soci...