The State Duma approved the bill on the inadmissibility of the dominance of foreign words in the Russian language

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The State Duma adopted at first reading a bill on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words in the Russian language, except for those that do not have widely used analogues. document published in the electronic database of the lower house.

In the explanatory note to the bill, “It is assumed that the use of foreign words, which do not have analogues widely used in Russian and are included in normative dictionaries, is unacceptable.”

Such a norm is aimed at protecting the Russian language from excessive use of foreign vocabulary specified in invoice documents. It also provides for the improvement of mechanisms for ensuring the status of the Russian language as a state language on the territory of Russia, and also implies the regulation of the control of the norms of the modern Russian literary language by officials and citizens.

The authors of the bill believe that its adoption will improve the general literacy level of citizens, the correct use of the state language, and provide control over the quality of preparing a “single corpus” of grammars and dictionaries.

The law on the protection of the Russian language from a large number of foreign words was enacted. introduced To the State Duma by the government of the Russian Federation in October.

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