State Duma deputy Tatyana Butskaya suggested translating the term “childless” into Russian. It has been reported DEA News.
The parliamentarian referred to the law of February 2023 on the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words when using the Russian language as a state language. signed Russian President Vladimir Putin. The document lists the areas where the Russian language should be used as a state language. These include education, government and municipal information systems, and information for consumers of goods, businesses and services.
According to the law, if there is a foreign language text in all the specified fields, the Russian text must be equivalent in terms of layout and technical design.
The law also provides for the inadmissibility of using the Russian language as a state use of words and expressions that do not comply with modern literary norms. The only exceptions are words that do not have widely used analogues in Russian and are listed in standard dictionaries.
As Butskaya points out, it was “legally recognized already” that Russia was “de-Anglophone”.
“If there is a law, it must be followed,” he said.
The deputy also said that the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children is currently considering a bill that prohibits the dissemination of childless information among children. The authors of the document are State Duma deputy Elvira Aitkulova and the Bashkortostan Provincial Assembly. Butskaya believes that the term “childless” should also be translated into Russian, “as the law already requires.”
So what happens? “Am I against children?”, “Free from children.” It will be scary for a man to even meet such a woman, it smells kind of cold, ”the parliamentarian added.
Former Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Culture Elena Yampolskaya judicial requirements for the replacement of foreign words with their Russian equivalents within the framework of the adopted draft law. According to him, before 2025 it will be necessary to replace words with analogues. By this time, it is planned to issue normative dictionaries and reference books.