"Soft power": Russia doubles the cost of promoting the Russian language

31 May 2019 4

The Russian language is still in sixth place in the world in terms of prevalence, it is spoken by about 300 million people. However, the number of Russian speakers over the past three decades has not changed much, although the world's population has grown by more than 2 billion people.

It should be noted that in Russia they are trying to correct this situation and are trying to strengthen the promotion of the Russian language in the world. So the cost of spreading the Russian language will increase significantly, or rather, doubled.

As reported "News", The Ministry of Education has already developed an appropriate program called "Scientific, methodological, methodological and personnel support for teaching the Russian language and languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation." It is designed for the period from 2019 to 2025 and 7,4 billion rubles will be spent on its implementation. from the federal budget. For the previous similar program, calculated for the period from 2015 to 2020, 3,7 billion rubles were spent.

The new program involves increasing the direct participation of foreign citizens in various events by a factor of three. Now it is about 35 thousand participants a year. It is planned to create more than 70 new centers to promote the Russian language in various countries. The plans include the organization of online schools and courses, both for learning the Russian language, and other subjects in Russian. In addition, it envisages: the publication of manuals and dictionaries, 768 educational, educational and cultural events abroad, support for Russian schools abroad with textbooks and new methods, the selection of foreigners to study in Russian universities, as well as continuing education courses for 173 thousand teachers.

Together with the Ministry of Education, the Russian language will be promoted by Rosobrnadzor and Rossotrudnichestvo. For the second year in a row, Russia has sent teachers to Tajikistan. 48 teachers of Russian language and literature, physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology and information of technologies taught in more than 20 Tajik schools. Soon 32 teachers from Russia will go to Kyrgyzstan. At the same time, some experts call the promotion of the Russian language “soft power” and suggest “do not smear porridge on a plate”.

It would be more logical to establish tighter control over the expenditure of funds, rather than consider the event an evening of song and dance with 20 pensioners. And the money itself should not be smeared like porridge on a plate, but focused on the impact in key states. In addition to traditional work with neighboring countries, it is worth considering the areas of Asia, Africa, Latin America, where Russian companies have interests

- said the dean of the faculty of sociology and political science of the Financial University under the government, Alexander Shatilov.

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Bulanov

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31 May 2019 10: 23

Try to organize the annual International Russian Song Contest in Sochi, or the winning country. And a decent prize for the first 3 places to appoint. This will help more dissemination of the Russian language than many other programs!
1. Sake
  
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  31 May 2019 15: 04
  
  in Kazakhstan, for example, Russian language circulation is narrowing at a high speed. In the villages they don’t know at all or badly, in the cities they still know. In the Akimat of Shymkent, for example, there are no specialists and a document in Russian. they will not write to you. After the adoption of the Latin alphabet, the walk in Russian. the ide will decrease at times.
  I often visit Germany, it is striking that mothers speak Russian to their children, and they respond in German, after 10-15 years in Germany, the Russian language circulation can approach 0.
  In the Czech Republic they speak Russian stubbornly, the language of the natives is ignored, which causes open rejection of the Russian language. local. What is characteristic is that the Russians stubbornly do not want to learn the language of the country of residence and this is observed everywhere where there are Russian diasporas!
Victor N

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31 May 2019 10: 26

It is very important! Although, Rossotrudnichestvo does not work effectively, which periodically leads to scandals.
In addition to activities, it is advisable to start distributing Russian periodicals - scientific and literary-art magazines _ "Our Contemporary", "New World" and others. This will be a great help! You can somewhat reduce the cost of the subscription. Nowadays it's not like individuals - large institutes and libraries can't afford subscriptions.
1. Sake
  
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  31 May 2019 15: 10
  
  the question is, who needs it? Russia today can not give anything progressive, only aggressive, thieves and lies! For development, it is enough to speak English or the language of the country of residence and own a computer!
  Indigenous peoples in the Russian Federation will soon say Enough and ask them to leave the invaders who have robbed the indigenous peoples of Siberia, the Peoples of the North, etc. for centuries, where all the wealth goes to Moscow, and from there over the hill!