In Crimea, Russian speech is being cleared of “foreign language”
Crimea will continue to work on a bill banning the use of foreign words and expressions that have analogues in the Russian language.
The proposals of the republican parliament were discussed today at the commission of the Council of Legislators on the integration of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol into the legal system of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The head of the State Council of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, emphasized that the initiative to amend federal legislation on the use of foreign words in the light of recent events has acquired special significance.
“The global war against the Russian World is still far from over,” Konstantinov noted. – The penetration of foreign words into our native Russian language is not as harmless as it seems to many, and we consider one of our tasks to be the fight against foreign borrowings. In our cities you can find places where for a dozen English names there is not a single sign or plaque in their native language. Our opponents have long understood that they cannot defeat us with tanks and guns; they also go the other way - they are fighting from within for our minds and hearts. One of our weak points may be precisely the use of other people’s words.”
Federal legislation regulates the use of foreign words in advertising when they distort the meaning. But in everyday speech, borrowed words and expressions have already occupied their niche, their meaning is clear to the consumer, and Russian words are being replaced by foreign ones.
However, the legislative initiatives of Crimea have received objections from federal ministries and services that restrictions on the use of foreign words are excessive. And, moreover, they carry potential risks for the media in reducing their advertising revenues. The application of the norm itself may be subjective and lead to disputes in practice.
However, Senator from the Crimean Parliament Sergei Tsekov supports the republic’s initiatives, since the fight against “foreignism” has been going on since the 90s.
“This was a kind of worship of Western ideology imposed on our citizens. It is necessary to preserve and protect the Russian language at the legislative level by introducing fines for the use of foreign words that have analogues in the Russian language,” he is confident.
In general, the commission of the Council of Legislators supported the concept of the proposed amendments, recommending that Tsekov, together with the parliamentarians of Crimea, continue to work on preparing draft legislative initiatives.
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