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Russian As The National Language: An Overview Of Language Planning In The Russian Federation, Joan F. Chevalier
Russian As The National Language: An Overview Of Language Planning In The Russian Federation, Joan F. Chevalier
Russian Language Journal
In June of 2005 the federal legislation On the national language was signed into law by Vladimir Putin.1 The bill, revised and renamed several times after its initial introduction in the Duma in 2001, proved to be highly controversial, stimulating lively public debate. The law merits discussion as the first major piece of federation legislation focused on language policy and language planning to appear in the Russian Federation in several years. The law addresses both language‐status planning, which concerns the status and function of the Russian language, and language corpus planning, which attempts to affect changes in language forms and …