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> embrace the local language at the local level

Yes, "embracing" is clearly the picture painted by Syres Boliayen in the UN:

> Native peoples in Russia are forbidden to have their own political parties, or even to study their mother tongue in secondary schools. Only dancing in national costumes is tolerated. Those who stand up for their rights are persecuted as extremists and become victims of punitive psychiatry

(or killed, as Kuyashev)