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Language Policies in Former Yugoslavia In this article the language policy of former Yugoslavia is compared to language policies of the newly constituted states on its territory. The comparison is made through the grid composed of four different typological classifications of language policies (those introduced by Calvet, Phillipson and Skutnabb-Kangas, Fishman, and Kloss), and the conclusion is that, in spite of the proclaimed goals of democratization, nationalistic politics, as ideologically determined as the former language policy was, but in the opposite sense, produced a general deterioration of the state of linguistic rights as well as of the communicative practice.

The Studio franco-russe, 1929-1931 The article examines the history and implications of the Studio franco-russe, an initiative of regular intellectual and cultural exchanges between the Russian émigré writers and thinkers who took refuge in France after the Bolshevik coup of 1917 and their French col- leagues, which took place in the inter-war Paris at the time of a radical shift in European ideological paradigms. Created by the younger artistic generation of Russian exiles in an effort to span the gap separating their creative activity from the French cultural circles, the Studio became a major venue of intellectual commerce, where a wide array of Russian and French cultural figures were united in open and public debates on the esthetic, philosophical, and moral dilemmas of the day. Archival documents and contemporary critical accounts which shed light on the work of the Studio, as well as the stenographic records of its fourteen meetings allow a relatively faithful reconstruction and analysis of an intellectual adventure unprecedented in the annals of Russian-French cultural interaction.

Round the Nobel Prize : Mark Aldanov, Ivan Bunin and The Swedish Academy For many years the candidature of Mark Aldanov, a famous Russian émigré novelist, had been proposed to be awarded by the first Russian Nobel prize laureate in literature Ivan Bunin. The archival materials from the Swedish academy (Stockholm) make possible to clarify a relationship between both eminent authors. The opinions of the expert of the Nobel Committee and its members on the Aldanovs creative works as reflected in the new recovered documents demonstrate new aspects in the reception of the Russian émigré literature in the West.