Contents: Petteri Laihonen/Anastassia Zabrodskaja/Marián Sloboda: What transition, which sociolinguistics? - Ekaterina Gruzdeva: Treasure Island at the turn of the millennium: The socioeconomic and sociolinguistic situation on Sakhalin, Russia - Hector Alos i Font: The Chuvash language in the Chuvash Republic: An example of the rapid decline of one of Russia's major languages - Nina Dobrushina: Multilingualism in highland Daghestan throughout the 20th century - Verena Mezger: Sociolinguistic transition in a former GDR region: Multilingual Brandenburg and its challenges - Krzysztof Przygonski: Political transformation as a trigger for a sociolinguistic revolution in post-socialist Poland: English and its rising power - Marián Sloboda: Transition to super-diversity in the Czech Republic: its emergence and resistance - Attila Beno/János Pentek: Hungarians in Transylvania: Language policy and mainstream language ideologies in Romania - Jelena Timotijevic: The sociolinguistic transition of the discourse of nationalism in Serbia from Tito to neoliberal crash in the 2000s - Birute Klaas-Lang: State policies and institutional language choice: The vitality of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian in higher education - Meilute Ramoniene/Loreta Vilkiene: Changes in the social value of languages in urban areas of Lithuania, 1990-2010 - Brigita Seguis: Post-Soviet multilingualism: Code-switching in the Polish community in Lithuania - Kadri Koreinik: Multilingualism on the periphery: Valuing languages in south-eastern Estonia - Istvan Csernicsko/Viktoria Ferenc: Transitions in the language policy of Ukraine (1989-2014) - Olga Ivanova: Language situation in post-Soviet Kyiv: Ukrainian and Russian in the linguistic landscape and communicative practices - Sholpan Zharkynbekova/Damira Akynova: Ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan: Analysis of language preferences among high school students - Sholpan Zharkynbekova/Aliya Aimoldina: The role of English language in the context of new language policy implementation in Kazakhstan - Maganat Shegebayev: Linguistic diversity and business communication in today's Kazakhstan.