CONSOLIDATING ROLE OF NATIONAL-RUSSIAN BILINGUALISM IN THE MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN

The article focuses on government measures that ensure ethnosocial stability in the sphere of language functioning. It describes individual events of historical and cultural centres of the Republic of Bashkortostan that contribute to the preservation of ethnic, linguistic diversity and tolerance education. The author believes that the humanitarian condition of regional ethnolinguistic and social stability is a collegial decision of elected cultural representatives of all strata of the Turkic and Russian superethnoses on the content of teaching the basics of Russian and Turkic cultures in the regional education system. The author draws attention to the correction of the concepts of “bilingualism,” “bilingual linguistic personality,” “Eurasian linguistic personality” actively used in the theory of contactology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, linguomethodology under the influence of globalisation processes. The issue of relativity of the concept of “balanced” national-Russian bilingualism in the multiethnic conditions of Bashkiria is discussed. We characterise interference as an inevitable objective phenomenon that often accompanies bilingualism. Therefore, we believe that “defects” in Russian speech are reflected in the impossibility of professional self-realisation of many bilinguals. The integrating role of national-Russian bilingualism lies in the practical necessity of using the dominant (Russian) language and interethnic tolerance, and in the transformation of the linguistic personality of a bilingual into a Eurasian one. The essence of the latter is realised in the process of interaction of close interethnic contacts in the form of various invariants