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Sasha writes about the state of legislation in Kyrgyzstan.

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Lona

VEry nice for my final paper

# 2006-04-13 at 3:28 am

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Monster

I disagree on the thought that lack of constitutional backing of Russian language in the early 90’s was a large contributor to emmigration – people weren’t emmigrating cause they were worried “are we gonna be able to talk russian” but rather because of the economic and cultural reasons.

# 2006-04-14 at 14:46 pm

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