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2003 / 3. szám - EURÓPA - Sáfi Csaba: A Few Words on the Federal Law on State policy of the Russian Federation with regard to Fellow Countrymen Abroad
A Few Words on the Federal Law on State Policy of the Russian Federation Notes 1 Gereben, Agnes: 25 millió orosz távol Moszkvától [25 Million Russians Far from Moscow], 2 Sáfi, Csaba: Az oroszkérdés és a független Ukrajna, avagy az ukrajnai orosz és oroszajkú etnikum helyzete az 1990-es évek elsó felében [The Russian Question and the Independent Ukraine, or the Situation of the Russian and Russian-speaking Ethnic Group in Ukraine in the First Half of the 1990s)-Thesis, 2001 (BKÁE). 3 Gorbunov, Jurit: The explosive situation in Crimea and around it, last modified: 11.11.1999. 4 Federalni Zakón o Gosudarstvennoi politike Rossiskoi Federadi v otnosenii sootecestvennikov za rubezhom - No 99-F3 (Moscow, 24 May 1999) 5 From the period prior to the adoption of the law, the following documents are to be mentioned: the presidential decree of 11 August 1994 determining the fundamental course of the assistance of fellow countrymen outside the borders, the government regulation of 31 August 1994 connected to it, and the presidential decree of 14 September 1995 determining the strategic foreign policy course toward the CIS member states. The presidential decree of 5 November 1998 on the reinforcement of the regulations of the consular institutions of the RF only decrees that these are to participate in the development and improvement of relations with the fellow countrymen. 6 Russian political terminology understands the newly independent republics of the former Soviet Union under the "Near Abroad" expression. 7 In compliance with the previous definition, the "Far Abroad" expression indicates the territories outside the borders of the former Soviet Union. 8 It is well-known what a successful and effective lobby activity the diaspora, and the Western diaspora within it, carries out on behalf of Israel, Armenia, or Poland. 9 Poloskova, Tatiana Viktorovna: Sovremennie diaspori, Moscow. 1999. 10 Following the abolishment of the ministries dealing with CIS affairs and federal, nationality, and migration affairs, their tasks with regard to fellow countrymen were taken over by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the regulations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs adopted in 1995, the ministry only contributes to the development of relations and contacts with respect to fellow countrymen. 11 Surce from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 12 During her visit in Budapest in 2002, Tatiana Viktorovna Poloskova emphasised the corruption that had evolved around the assistance provided to fellow countrymen. Among others, it resulted in anomalies and inconsistencies, such as the fact that even the Banderist groups around Lemberg that are notoriously anti-Russians, could obtain assistance. 13 Poloskova, Tatiana Viktorovna: Diaspori v sisteme v mezhdunarodnykh sviazei, Moscow. 1998. 14 Sáfi, Csaba: Az oroszkérdés és a független Ukrajna, avagy az ukrajnai orosz és oroszajkú etnikum helyzete az 1990-es évek első felében [The Russian Question and the Independent Ukraine, or the Situation of the Russian and Russian-speaking Ethnic Group in Ukraine in the First Half of the 1990s] - Thesis, 2001 (BKAE). The preponderant majority of the Crimean is of Russian nationality, 2003. ősz 57
