Book Review: Politics of the Russian Language Beyond Russia

devoted to the topic of Russian soft politics abroad, in particular to its linguistic pillar.The goal of the book is to give a "linguistic turn" to the modern debates taking place in the frame of Russian studies.It is of an asset that the series of articles does not only analyse past relationships with the former Soviet countries such as Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, and Belarus, but also gives a broader picture of the influence of linguistic policy, and does an in-depth research of discourse analysis and identity building of Russian-speakers in Ireland and Germany, thus trying to profile