Institute of Linguistics RAS

One of the leading linguistic research institutions in Russia, which is a part of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It conducts research on theoretical problems of linguistics, and also studies the languages of Russia, the CIS and foreign countries, including Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Iranian, Turkic, Mongolian, Finno-Ugric languages, languages of the Caucasus, Tropical Africa, Eastern and Southeast Asia. Considerable attention is also paid to the problems of typological and comparative historical linguistics, the study of sociolinguistic problems (language situation, language policy, language conflicts) in different regions of the world.