Council for the Russian Language

[Glenn E. Thobe]

The St. Petersburg Times (Russia, not Florida) did an article on the
new council charged with defending the Russian language.

   66% >>>>> #543, FEBRUARY 18, 2000
   Top Story (Russian Language Council Created) - Russian Language
   Council Created| By Anna Badkhen| SPECIAL TO THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES|
   MOSCOW - Bureaucrats abuse it. Mass media manipulate it. And shop
   owners contaminate it with foreign elements.| Any way you look at it,
   the Russian language is in jeopardy.| But lovers of the mother tongue,
   take heart. Russian authorities say they have found a *****
   http://www.sptimes.ru/archive/times/543/russian.htm

-Glenn Thobe <thobe at lafn.org>

> Dear Seelangers,

> I am interested in learning more about the newly formed "Council for the
> Russian Language,"  which, according to a Feb. 25 Christian Science Monitor
> article titled "Word cops in the land of Putin and Pushkin," is charged in
> part with "cleansing" the Russian language of unecessary foreign words (or,
> as one member of the Council quoted in the article put it, of "stupid
> borrowings").  Please let me know if you have seen any articles on this in
> the Russian press!

> Thank you!

> Dianna Murphy

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