I am a PhD student in the Russian Department at the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies. My dissertation, titled “Language Policy in the Caucasus from the Late Imperial to the Early Soviet Period: The Cases of Armenia and Dagestan,” examines the implementation of and grassroots reaction to Russian imperial and Soviet language policies in the Caucasus from the 1880s to the 1930s, drawing on sources in Arabic, Armenian, Russian, and other languages.