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Конфликтогенный и конфликторазрешающий потенциал языковой политики Российской Федерации
The present article contains a conflict analysis of the language policy of the Russian Federation. The stated problem seems to be particularly important considering that language plays a significant role in the process of people’s self-identification and self-consciousness formation of ethnic groups. The state regulates the languages through language policy. Language policy is carried out mainly through the creation and application of language laws. The author focuses his interest on the influence, which language issues regulation has on conflict development in a multilingual society. The author is considering conflict triggering and conflict resolving aspects of laws, which regulate language policy of the Russian Federation. In addition, the main contradictions of the language policy of the Russian Federation that affect the conflict potential of Russian society are identified in this articleThe article analyzes the main laws determining the language policy of the Russian Federation: the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Federal Law «On the State Language of the Russian Federation» and the Federal Law «On the Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation». In addition, author analyses the conflict potential and the reasons for adoption of amendments to “the Law on Education in the Russian Federation”, which has made it unnecessary to study national languages of republics in schools and universities.