Fwd: It's official: Russian is the state language

[Valery Belyanin]

Dear Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list

Zakon o yazyke - eto horroshow:)
http://gazeta.ru/parliament/articles/14585.shtml

Best regards,    Valery Belyanin Editor of www.textology.ru

Thursday, February 06, 2003, 2:59:08 PM, curt fredric woolhiser
<cfwoolhiser at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:
>>>IT'S OFFICIAL: RUSSIAN IS THE STATE LANGUAGE... State Duma deputies
>>Russian as the state language. It prohibits the use of foreign words
>>or expressions that have Russian-language equivalents in public
>>documents or in civil, criminal, or administrative court proceedings,
>>the agency reported. "The Moscow Times" reported earlier that since

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