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^{Source: Compiled by the author.}

^Notes

^{a. Ukaz Presidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 10 janvarya 2000 g. N 24 “O Konceptsii natsionalnoy bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii,” https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/doctrine/gazeta012400.htm.}

^{b. The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation, 28 June 2000, http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/doctrine/econcept.htm.}

^{c. “Konceptsiya podderzhki RossiyskoyFederatsii sootechestvennikov za rubezhom na sovremennom etape,” http://www.whiteworld.ru/rubriki/000122/000/01101302.htm.}

^{d. Ibid.}

^{e. Federal Law No. 62-FZ On Russian Federation Citezenship, 31 May 2002, http://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/4189.}

^{f. Rasporyazheniye Pravitelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 28.11.2002 № 1663-r. “Osnovnye napravleniya podderzhki Rossiyskoy Federatsiyey sootechestvennikov za rubezhom na 2002–2005 gody,” http://docs.procspb.ru/content/part/63062.}

^{g. “Programma mer organizatsionnogo, pravovogo, administrativnogo, socialnoekonomicheskogo kharaktera, na dolgosrochnoye stimulirovaniye dobrovol’nogo pereseleniya v Rossiu sootechestvennikov izza rubezha,” utverzhdennaya Pravitelstvom Rossiyskoy Federatsii 18 yunya 2005 g. (№ MF-P12-2990).}

^{h. “Kompleks mer po podderzhke rossiyskikh sootechestvennikov za rubezhom i sodeistviyu ikh dobrovolnomu pereseleniyu v Rossiyskuyu Federatsiyu,” utverzhdennyi Pravitelstvom Rossiyskoy Federatsii 8 yulya 2005 g, http://www.materick.ru/index.php?section=analitics&bulid=115&bulsectionid=11284}

^{i. The program was later updated. See Government decree No. 492, The Russian Language Federal Target Program (2011–2015), 20 June 2011 (Postanovleniye Pravitelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 20.06.2011 № 492. “O federalnoy tselevoy programme ‘Russkiy yazik’ na 2011–2015 gody”), http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_161668/.}

^{j. Postanovleniye Pravitelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 29.12.2005 № 833. “O federalnoy tselevoy programme ‘Russkiy yazik (2006–2010 gody)’,” http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_101301/.}

^{k. Signed on the symbolic date 22 June—the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45.}

^{A new version of the program came into effect in July 2010. See Alexander Zhuravsky and Olga Vykhovanets, “Compatriots: Back to the Homeland,” Russian International Affairs Council, 31 May 2013, http://russiancouncil.ru/en/inner/?id_4=1908#top.}