Council for the Russian Language

[Kira Gor]

А к этому ваше начальство не прикладывает руку?
К

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>From: "Glenn E. Thobe" <thobe at LAFN.ORG>
>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: Council for the Russian Language
>Date: Tue, Feb 29, 2000, 6:47 PM
>

> 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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