Russian President Vladimir Putin said that attention should be paid to promoting the linguistic diversity of the peoples of the Russian Federation. Putin said this at an informal meeting with the winners of the awards for young artists, the awards for works for children and youth in the field of literature and art, after the award ceremony. TASS.
Tatarstan director Aidar Zabbarov, one of the laureates, admitted to the president that the regional theater is “more than just a theatre”. Zabbarov emphasized that the theater is “an institution for the preservation of another language”.
The Russian president noted that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, support for the diversity of national languages in the country decreased, so this issue is very important.
“This is very important. After the dissolution of the Union, there was a moment in Russia when we unfortunately lost a lot in terms of supporting national languages,” he said.
According to the Russian leader, there are about 170-175 languages of this type in the Russian Federation.
“Some of them have almost no carriers anyway. “It’s very, very important to maintain this diversity,” said Putin.
A director from Tatarstan said in a meeting with the president that national theaters in some regions often stage productions in Russian, because performances in national languages are not in demand as much as Russian. Putin said it was necessary to “invent new formats”.
“Here, unfortunately, as in many other market relations, supply creates demand. No demand, no outgoing. We need to find some kind of support,” the President concluded.
22 March Vladimir Putin delivery For the year 2022, it was deemed worthy of awards for works for children and young cultural figures in the field of literature and art.