Islam in Burkina Faso and order and by stimulating trade. They also tended to regard Muslims as culturally and educationally more advanced than non-Muslim Africans, and appointed Muslim chiefs and clerks as administrators in non-Muslim areas. In Upper Volta at the end of the 19th century there were only some 30,000 Muslims, but by 1959 there were 800,000, approximately 20 percent of the population. In 1984, Upper Volta was renamed Burkina Faso. After a succession of military coups, a constitutional republic was established in 1991. In Burkina Faso the Arabist and Islamist movement is viewed a counter-culture to the European style of modernity, and
Law on the languages of the peoples of the Republic of Bashkortostan Law on the languages of the peoples of the Republic of Bashkortostan The Law on the languages of the peoples of the Republic of Bashkortostan is a law aimed at protecting and preserving the languages of the peoples of Bashkortostan. According to the law, all the signs and indicators should be in Bashkir and Russian. Substantive provisions of the law include the following sections. In the Republic of Bashkortostan recognized equality of languages. Equality of languages - the totality of the rights of peoples and the person on the conservation and comprehensive development of the native language, freedom of choice