Putin's war on minority languages backfires - Eastern Express - TVP WORLD

Putin is pushing a linguistic revolution across Russia – one that threatens the survival of dozens of minority nations. Only one percent of pupils are able to learn in their native language, yet the Kremlin wants that number even lower. But forcing everyone to speak Russian may create a new kind of resistance: educated, fluent, and ready to stand up to discrimination. This episode asks the question: when empires try to control identity, do they end up rewriting their own?