Putin Is Afraid Of Foreign Words

A decree has been signed to "fight" them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree approving the foundations of the state language policy. In the decree, one of the threats to the Russian language, which supports "a single cultural and civilizational community of the 'Russian world,'" is the use in Russia of words borrowed from other languages, according to The Moscow Times.

In particular, the section on threats in the area of state language policy lists as one of the risks "the unjustified use in official communication of foreign words that have common analogues in the Russian language, and foreign words that are not in common use in the Russian language. According to the text of the decree, the authorities intend to reduce the use of words from other languages in official speech.

In addition, as part of the state language policy, the Kremlin plans to promote the Russian language, which is called "Russia's national treasure and one of the foundations of Russian statehood," as a means of interethnic communication in the post-Soviet space and increase its popularity in foreign countries.

According to the document, the country will create a single line of school textbooks on the languages of the peoples of Russia and the methodology for teaching them. In the Cyrillic keyboard layout it is planned to allocate a special place for letters from national languages.

"Russia successfully resists attempts to restrict the use of the Russian language, "abolish" Russian culture (including Russian literature), discriminate against Russian mass media, impose ideological guidelines that contradict traditional Russian spiritual and moral values," the decree emphasizes.

In June, the Russian State Duma passed a law aimed at reducing the use of foreign words in the Russian language. The innovation was characterized as "protection of the Russian language from excessive use of borrowings." The document imposed restrictions on the use of borrowed words on signs, labels, in advertising, in the names of residential complexes, etc.

In the beginning of the same month, Putin urged to "consistently get rid of vulgar and mechanical foreign borrowings, which do not enrich, but, on the contrary, litter, corrupt our language". He said that the Cyrillic alphabet should be used in public space, not a "mush" of Latin and other symbols.

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