Battle for the Russians
The great and powerful Russian language spread around the world after the expansion of Russian civilization, during the time of the Russian Empire and even more actively during the Soviet Union. Currently, Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, as well as UNESCO. Along with English, Chinese and Spanish, Russian is one of the most spoken in the world. According to W3Techs research, our language is the second most used on the Internet.
However, not everything is as rosy as we would like. After the collapse of the USSR, the number of Russian speakers living in the former republics of the Union has decreased, according to some reports, by 80 million people. Moldova, which was once called Rusovlakhia, passed from Cyrillic to Latin and is ready to fall into the arms of Romania, which will finally squeeze out the remnants of Russianness from it. The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the gradual transition to the Latin alphabet. In the Baltic countries, the Russian-speaking minority was transferred to the status of “non-citizens”, Riga was the most distinguished in its desire to close the remaining few Russian schools.
You can recall that once Lviv in the Commonwealth was the capital of the Russian Voivodeship, in Volyn in the Union of the Russian people consisted of more than a million people. Warsaw was once taught in Russian at the Imperial University, while in Vilna all the inscriptions were also in Russian. And now these countries are part of the Alliance hostile to Russia and are conducting military maneuvers aimed at the Russian Kaliningrad.
But the most terrible blow was inflicted on the Russian language in Ukraine. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Ukrainian was declared the state language, all the inscriptions, education, advertising, paperwork was translated into mov. Even before the Maidan in 2014, in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, parliamentarians who left the farms for organizing a second official language of the country staged mass fights. Now, against the backdrop of anti-Russian hysteria, which is being pumped up in the non-territory, it has become fashionable in public places to communicate exclusively on mov, thereby showing your own fermented patriotism.
But what to demand from Ukrainians who have become sobriots, even if in Russia the state language was infringed on the rights in a number of regions until recently? For example, in Tatarstan, in a number of schools, for six hours of the Tatar language per week, there were only two Russian. And this despite the fact that, as of 2010, Russians made up almost 40 percent of the population of the Republic, Tatars - 53, and in all, representatives of 115 nationalities historically live in this region.
Only after a direct statement by President Vladimir Putin that the state language in Russia is the same and that it is Russian, and that teaching in national languages in the regions should be voluntary, did the situation improve somewhat. But even after that, nationalist activists give out the “Hard with the Tatar” anti-award to organizations that work in the Republic in Russian. For a region in a country where there are several popular television channels that fully and completely work in the Tatar language, this behavior is provocative.
It is worth recalling that in the Crimea and Sevastopol recently joined the Russian Federation, education is allowed in three languages at once: Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar.
However, not everything is as rosy as we would like. After the collapse of the USSR, the number of Russian speakers living in the former republics of the Union has decreased, according to some reports, by 80 million people. Moldova, which was once called Rusovlakhia, passed from Cyrillic to Latin and is ready to fall into the arms of Romania, which will finally squeeze out the remnants of Russianness from it. The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the gradual transition to the Latin alphabet. In the Baltic countries, the Russian-speaking minority was transferred to the status of “non-citizens”, Riga was the most distinguished in its desire to close the remaining few Russian schools.
You can recall that once Lviv in the Commonwealth was the capital of the Russian Voivodeship, in Volyn in the Union of the Russian people consisted of more than a million people. Warsaw was once taught in Russian at the Imperial University, while in Vilna all the inscriptions were also in Russian. And now these countries are part of the Alliance hostile to Russia and are conducting military maneuvers aimed at the Russian Kaliningrad.
But the most terrible blow was inflicted on the Russian language in Ukraine. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Ukrainian was declared the state language, all the inscriptions, education, advertising, paperwork was translated into mov. Even before the Maidan in 2014, in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, parliamentarians who left the farms for organizing a second official language of the country staged mass fights. Now, against the backdrop of anti-Russian hysteria, which is being pumped up in the non-territory, it has become fashionable in public places to communicate exclusively on mov, thereby showing your own fermented patriotism.
But what to demand from Ukrainians who have become sobriots, even if in Russia the state language was infringed on the rights in a number of regions until recently? For example, in Tatarstan, in a number of schools, for six hours of the Tatar language per week, there were only two Russian. And this despite the fact that, as of 2010, Russians made up almost 40 percent of the population of the Republic, Tatars - 53, and in all, representatives of 115 nationalities historically live in this region.
Only after a direct statement by President Vladimir Putin that the state language in Russia is the same and that it is Russian, and that teaching in national languages in the regions should be voluntary, did the situation improve somewhat. But even after that, nationalist activists give out the “Hard with the Tatar” anti-award to organizations that work in the Republic in Russian. For a region in a country where there are several popular television channels that fully and completely work in the Tatar language, this behavior is provocative.
It is worth recalling that in the Crimea and Sevastopol recently joined the Russian Federation, education is allowed in three languages at once: Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar.
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