Fwd: Петиция за признание русского языка

[anne marie devlin]

As stated in the original posting, the main reason for this is the 7 million or so native-speakers of Russian who are EU citizens.  Many of these citizens have been denied language parity in their own countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lituania being the most obvious countries). Although the reason for the rejection of Russian as an official language in these countries is very understandable, it does result in a significant percentage of the population essentially being rendered voiceless.  With that in mind, there may be a valid case for the EU to accept this minority language as an official one; however this would undoubtably be a source of great conflict between the member states and the EU.
AM
 

> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 13:51:36 +0100
> From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fwd: Петиция за признание русского языка
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> I believe that this notion originated in the fertile imagination of Dmitrij Rogozin. It totally contradicts EU language policy and stands as much chance of success as I do of becoming the next President of Russia. I would have expected better from Mr Rogozin, who in the past has achieved some success in negotiations with the EU (over the Kaliningrad transit arrangements). Disappointed Slavists may, however, take some comfort from the fact that the Slavonic languages will gain an additional foothold in the EU when Croatia becomes a member next year.
> 
> John Dunn.
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> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli [aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU]
> Sent: 19 May 2012 00:33
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fwd: Петиция за признание русского языка
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> The European Union has 23 official and working languages. They are: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. (http://ec.europa.eu/languages/languages-of-europe/eu-languages_en.htm)
> 
> Unlike Malta, Russia is not part of the EU. Isn't it a bit heavy-handed to get your foot in the door by sticking your language in the door?
> 
> AI
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