Archive of news on the topic "latina"

“Grushevka” is no longer “Khryushevka”. Latin buses have been removed from the Minsk metro

Minskaya Grushevka is a young and promising area. It is located near the center on the noisy Dzerzhinsky Avenue, one of the main thoroughfares of the capital. In 2012, a metro was installed there, and the area began to actively develop - 25-story residential buildings and modern business centers began to grow in place of the private sector and old Soviet barracks. Well, just with the name it turned out to be an awkward story...

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In Belarus, the imposition of “Latina” is over: Russophiles celebrate victory

The “Belarusian Latin” that had filled the cities of the republic was today replaced by a more readable version by a resolution of the State Property Committee. The old instruction on transliteration of names of geographical objects was canceled and replaced by a new one. There are two main changes. The first is that the resolution restored the violated equality of the two state languages. Until now, transliteration was possible only from the Belarusian language, but now...

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De-Russification of Belarus failed

The de-Russification of Belarus seems to have failed. At least when it comes to urban toponymy, there is reason for optimism. On December 8, speaking at a meeting of the commission on historical policy, the head of Lukashenko’s administration, Igor Sergeenko, confirmed that he was receiving many requests regarding the use of the Russian language and transliteration in the names of streets and settlements, and promised that this...

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Who needs a Latina, or Why are Russians being forced out of Belarusian streets?

In Belarus, they are again fighting over the Latin alphabet, the officially approved transliteration system for the Belarusian language. The troublemaker was Svetlana Karulskaya, a columnist for the Belarusian ONT TV channel in Moscow, who published a post on the telegram channel of the Belarusian Union of Journalists. The BSG channel has 1789 subscribers and has never been a place for lively discussions. Rarely does a post on it have at least one or two comments, Text...

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