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Part I. Russian as a communicative tool: Lingua franca, intermediator or something else?: Introduction: The Russian language away from metropolis: challenges of pluricentric development / Arto Mustajoki, Ekaterina Protassova, Maria Yelenevskaya -- 1. The History of Internationalization of the Russian Language / Vladimir M. Alpatov -- 2. Democratization of the Russian Language / Arto Mustajoki -- The Russian-language legacy: 3. language policy in relation to the Russian language in Georgia before and after dissolution of the Soviet Union / Kakha Gabunia, Ketevan Gochitashvili -- 4. Russian in Armenia: Between Thriving and Surviving / Suren T. Zolyan, Karen S. Hakobyan -- 5. Russian in Azerbaijan: Changing Practices and Emerging Paradigms / Jala Garibova -- 6. Variability in the Russian Diaspora Speech of Estonia / Jelisaveta Kostandi, Irina Külmoja, Oksana Palikova -- 7. The Russian Language in Latvia: The Historic Linguistic Situation / Pavels Jurs, Alida Samusevica -- 8. The Russian Language of the Lithuanian Republic as Reflected in Mass Media Discourse / Birute Sinochkina -- 9. The Russian Language in Belarus and Ukraine / Jan Patrick Zeller, Dmitri Sitchinava -- 10. The Russian Language in Kazakhstan in the 21st Century / Damina Shaibakova -- 11. Russian Language in Kyrgyzstan: Status, Functioning and Collisions between Languages / Mamed D. Tagaev, Ekaterina Protassova -- Part III. The Russian-Speaking Diaspora: 12. The Russian Language in France: from the Russian Community to the National Education System / Irina Kor Chahine -- 13. Russian in Germany / Katharina Hamann, Kai Witzlack-Makarevich, Nadja Wulff -- 14. Russian and its Speakers in Finland / Johanna Viimaranta -- 15. The Russian Language in Canada / Veronika Makarova -- 16. The Russian Dialects Outside Russia: The Situation in South America / Olga Rovnova -- 17. Connected by Digital Imagination: Discourses of Belonging and Community Building of Russophone Migrants in the USA and Great Britain / Oksana