Russian-language education in the former Soviet national republics in the last 30 years

This article is based on statistical data and the results of expert surveys and the author’s assessments of changes in Russian-language education in the former Soviet national republics in the period from the 1991/1992 academic year to that of 2019/2020. It is shown that the changes in the number of school and university students who received education in Russian in the last 30 years (after the collapse of the Soviet Union) are overall irreversible. At the same time, recently, including in connection with demographic processes and some other factors, the number of school students studying in Russian-speaking classes and schools in a number of Central Asian republics has begun to increase.