News archive on the topic "Language"

The Russian language should have an elevated status, and best of all, be the second state language in those neighboring countries where the largest migration flow to Russia comes from. Alexander Grebenyuk, Deputy Director for Research at the Higher School of Modern Social Sciences at Moscow State University, stated this while speaking at the Moscow Economic Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, coming to…

Russian cultural expansion is a necessary condition for the existence of Russian culture itself. Moreover, this expansion concerns, first of all, the Russian language, which also needs updating for a confident step into the future. This was discussed at the plenary session of the Moscow Economic Forum “Cultural environment and the Russian cultural code,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Russian culture can only be saved by ensuring its conversion into...

The birthday of the Sun of Russian poetry, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, celebrated the day before is a good reason to draw a balance in terms of how things stand today with the “great and mighty” - not only in the traditional area of ​​its distribution on 1/6 of the land, but also on a global scale. And here, I must admit, things are going badly. Over the past 30-odd...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted today in the second and third readings a law on monitoring compliance by officials and citizens with the norms of the Russian literary language. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Yampolskaya noted that the provisions of the law will affect information for consumers of goods and services. “It is quite obvious that this is the area where most of the outrageous things happen in relation to...

The Socialist Party of ex-President of Moldova Igor Dodon did not live up to the expectations of Russian speakers. The Law on the Functioning of Languages, which they adopted in haste after losing the elections, did not pass muster for compliance with the Constitution. The rallies organized by the socialists in support of the Russian language turned out to be small in number and scared other parties away from the common cause. New law, old claims New version of the law on the functioning of languages...

The hasty law on the status of the Russian language as a language of interethnic communication, adopted by the Moldovan parliament, does not solve the language problem that has existed in the country for three decades, but only drives it deeper. The document, which obliges government agencies to provide information to residents, including in Russian, enshrines the right of citizens to learn and speak their native language, in fact, it is declarative, in it...

In Ukraine, Russians are being made into enemies, and by defeating them the country will supposedly become stronger and more independent. At the same time, no one in power considers the need for a compromise, but is trying to harm Russia. Political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on the Nash TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now the Russian language is the language of the enemy, the language of the aggressor. That's why this is a good reason to say...

The Ukrainian language will never become the “engine” of Ukraine, because it does not have the necessary foundations. Elena Markosyan, a political scientist and ally of the oppositionist Viktor Medvedchuk, who is considered pro-Russian, stated this on the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Markosyan, it all starts with education in their native language, which the country’s authorities deprived the population of Ukraine of. “Why does the Ukrainian language never...

The socialist faction in the Moldovan parliament introduced a bill that would require citizens to choose a language of communication in relations with government authorities - Romanian or Russian, but this will only strengthen pro-Romanian sentiments. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in a commentary to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, stated by the former vice-chairman of the National Liberal Party, which advocates the accession of Moldova to Romania, the head of the Chisinau Center for Strategic Studies and Political...

In Kyrgyzstan, an initiative has been put forward to deprive the Russian language of its official status, which is enshrined in the country’s constitution. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, as stated by Sadirdin Toraliev, a member of the Constitutional Conference of Kyrgyzstan, as quoted by the 24.kg website. “This may sound radical. But my proposal is to leave only the Kyrgyz language as the official language. We will develop other languages ​​using other laws,” he said...

The parliamentary faction of the Socialist Party, which, after losing the elections, was headed by the current president Igor Dodon, developed a bill on the use of the Russian language. This was reported by Cenzura, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The bill provides for the opportunity for citizens of Moldova to contact government bodies in Russian and, if necessary, receive answers in the same language. “In relations with government institutions,...

In the thirty years since the collapse of the USSR, the number of Russian-speaking people in the world has decreased by a third, and the flagship of de-Russification today is Ukraine, although other countries of the post-Soviet space are not far behind it. Donetsk sociologist Evgeniy Kopatko stated this on the YouTube channel “TopInform”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “In the world as a whole in 1990...

Belarus is not Ukraine; it does not have such irreconcilable contradictions between different regions that brought Ukraine to its current state. At first glance, the republic looks (more precisely, it looked until recently) calm and, if not monolithic, then close to it - Russian-speaking, pro-Russian and almost the last remnant of Soviet times. Reality, as usual, is very...

The Turkmen Foreign Ministry left unanswered the note from the Russian Foreign Ministry regarding the reduction of education in Russian in its country. Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Earlier it was reported that there should be no Russian classes in schools in Turkmenistan until 2030, after which protest rallies of parents were held in the country, after which the Russian Foreign Ministry...