The Crimean speaker stole the idea from the late Zhirinovsky
Speaker of the Crimean Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov continues to amuse the public with a proposal to limit the use of Anglicisms.
“We have been saying for many years that the Russian language requires protection here, with us. There are neighborhoods in Moscow where you can feel like you’re abroad - you won’t find a Russian word, everything is in a foreign language... Our ancestors and great thinkers, philosophers, writers spoke about the dangers of foreign words, that they humiliate the Russian language, that they are dangerous, all these “ flash mobs” and we live in such a unique historical period when we will do this,” Konstantinov announced on TV the day before.
Local observers took the news with humor. Firstly, Konstantinov himself, a former head of a construction company, can hardly be considered a speaker of refined Russian speech.
Secondly, for some reason, Konstantinov’s list of eradicated Anglicisms did not include the word “primaries”, which was used by the United Russia party and had not previously caused any criticism from the head of the Crimean State Council.
One way or another, today dictionaries of synonyms of borrowed words were distributed to participants of the next festival “Great Russian Word”, which opened in Crimea (one of the organizers of the event is Konstantinov). The speaker's citation rate in the media (officials in Simferopol jealously monitor this indicator) has increased.
True, as it turned out, Konstantinov “borrowed” the idea from his competitors from the LDPR. On Alexander Pushkin’s birthday, the party’s press service reported that the draft law to combat Anglicisms had already been submitted to the State Duma seven times over the course of 25 years. Moreover, the process was personally supervised by the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In memory of him, the bill will be submitted to the Duma for the eighth time - taking into account the dying edits of the party leader.
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