Governments curb foreign words in official use and signage to protect state languages.

Russia restricts foreign words in officialdom unless no Russian equivalent exists, while experts urge clear criteria and exemptions for international terms.

Officials, journalists, and advertisers must use Russian and avoid foreign or non‑literary expressions.

A state commission approves regulatory dictionaries setting norms and permitted foreign terms, and a 2024–2026 plan backs sanctions up to 10 million rubles against "excessive foreign vocabulary" in public spaces and media.

Rules cover signage and business names; some regions demand translations or removal, excluding trademarks.

Banned borrowings include "trabl," "workshop," and "fake" in media, authorities, and public events.

Polls show 53% back Russian‑only inscriptions and 41% support banning foreign words with Russian equivalents.

Italy proposes banning foreign words in official communications, fining €5,000–€100,000, and requiring Italian in job applications.

The bill aims to curb "anglomania" and defend Italian in the public sector.

Havana is dropping foreign business names to limit foreign loanwords.

Ukraine bans Russian toponyms and sets Ukrainian‑language quotas on TV and cultural events.

Print media must be in Ukrainian, with exemptions for English, Crimean Tatar, and Russian with Ukrainian equivalents.

Draft measures would require Ukrainian for paperwork, ads, signs, menus, and customer service.

Serbia and Quebec regulate scripts or signage to promote the state language, and these francization rules can impose business costs and delays.

Egypt mandates Arabic on business names, money, and public signage, with fines up to £10,000.

Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands are limiting English in higher education to prioritize national languages.

Limits on foreign‑language signage and advertising can affect trade and tourism.

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Russia wants to ban the use of anglicisms in the media, trade and advertising
MP Yampolskaya: it is necessary to prohibit the use of anglicisms in the media and trade
Deputies have developed a bill that wants to limit the use of foreign words in public space, including in advertising, trade, when performing work or providing services to consumers, in the media and urban planning activities.
About this “Parliamentary newspaper ” said the author of the document, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on culture Elena Yampolskaya.
According to her, this initiative is aimed at protecting the native language.
According to the new draft law, information in public places, including signs, signs, external surfaces, information plates and signs can be placed only in the state language.
In addition, in Russian, consumers will have to be informed about the class or type of goods, its additional consumer properties and characteristics, the conditions of availability of the organization, promotions and not only.
“It should become impossible to use such inscriptions as, for example, coffee, fresh, sale, shop, open, and the like on signs and showcases, ” explained Yampolskaya.
Selling texts in advertising in Russian and in other languages must be identical in content, as well as equivalent in placement and technical design.
The exception will be brand names, trademarks and service marks.
In addition, the new rules may affect television and radio.
Information programs on public and state television channels and radio and coverage of the activities of state power will be conducted only in Russian, the languages of the republics and other languages   of the peoples who live in the Russian regions.
“The fight against excessive Anglomania, excessive Latinization of the environment is part of the fight against bad taste.
Dependence on Anglicisms, the willingness to serve “Ing ” endings in a foreign language looks plebeian, ” Yampolskaya said.
Sergei Kabyshev, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, previously said that Russia wants to adjust the foundations of state policy in the field of education and clarify the principle of the humanistic nature of education on the basis of Russian spiritual and moral values, and not “foreign patterns and borrowings. ”
Earlier, the most popular Anglicisms in Russia were named.
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SIMFEROPOL, Feb 16 – RIA Novosti Crimea, Alexey Goncharov.
The main risk of the law adopted by the State Duma on the restriction of the use of foreign words is the excesses that can be allowed in the struggle for the purity of the Russian language.
This opinion was expressed by the interviewed website RIA Novosti Crimea and radio "Sputnik in Crimea" experts.
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On Thursday, the State Duma in the second and third reading adopted amendments to the federal law "On the state language of the Russian Federation".
The law, in particular, prohibits the use of foreign words at the state level, with the exception of those that do not have common Russian-language analogues.
Deputies also approved a list of areas where Russian is mandatory for use.
These include information for consumers of goods, works and services, as well as the education sector, state and municipal information systems.
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Philology of the Crimean Federal University.
Vernadsky Vladimir Orekhov believes this law is correct and necessary, since the Russian language needs protection.
However, the main problem is how this document will work in practice.
"Indeed, there can be excesses, and on the part of officials, who in many cases are themselves a source of stupid borrowing.
It is this category that often distorts the Russian language with stationery and borrowings, inventing some new formulas.
To make a beautiful project or report, you need to call the old with new words, preferably foreign, and, passing the old for new, somehow raise your prestige.
And then it already diverges, ” the expert explained in comments to RIA Novosti Crimea.
Orekhov also does not believe that young people are the main source of borrowing in the language.
According to him, youth slang is changing so quickly that such loanwords rarely take root for a long time.
At the same time, what is recorded in official documents, already, as they say in a well-known saying, "you can not cut down with an axe."
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“Most of the borrowings that this law is designed to save us from are in official documents of different levels.
This also applies to the capital institutions, but to a greater extent provincial.
This is a kind of fashion – to show your knowledge using incomprehensible foreign words.
How to deal with it, I have no recipe.
On the other hand, this law in itself can change this fashion in the administrative environment.
In this case, he by the very fact of his existence will correct the situation, ” the philologist suggested.
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According to Orekhov, the mechanisms that will be able to effectively implement the norms of this law should be developed through a wide public discussion, with the involvement of school teachers, university teachers, cultural figures and all those who are involved in the development of the Russian language.
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Director of the Crimean Republican Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Doctor of Philology, Professor Alexander Rudyakov is also sure that the law adopted by the State Duma and the protection of the Russian language in general is a good thing.
But the question arises: where is the criterion that distinguishes foreign words from non-foreign ones.
After all, in our language there are many Russian words that are originally borrowed from other languages.
"My wife is a German, we often argue with her.
She believes that the word "barrier" is a German word.
And I, a simple Russian, I am convinced that this is a Russian word.
Therefore, it is important that there are clear criteria for all this.
That's what we're talking about.
The law is excellent, but it is important how it will be applied and what criteria will be there, ” the expert said on the radio “Sputnik in Crimea ”.
Another important fact to pay special attention to is professional universal terminology, said Rudyakov.
“In many branches of knowledge, say, in the banking sector, there are words that are, in principle, international.
It is probably not very smart to isolate yourself from the terminology that is inherent in this area.
Another thing is not to drag it into our public vocabulary.
This is also very important to understand and comply with, ” explained the philologist.
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At the same time, the professor agreed that today in a number of areas, including administrative and media, there is an excessive use of foreign words, which can be easily and simply replaced by Russian-language analogues.
"When you hear 'communicate', 'collaboration' - the hand reaches for the gun.
Somewhere I read the information that a "Children's Collaboration House" was built in Vladivostok.
That's what's scary, you know.
These are obvious excesses, ” said the doctor of science.
Rudyakov, who is also a member of the Council on the Russian language under the President of Russia, assured that he will raise questions regarding the new law at the next meeting of the organization on March 2.
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The State Duma adopted in the second and third readings the law on the state language.
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According to the published document, the purpose of the bill is to increase the importance of the Russian language as the state language throughout the country.
In particular, to strengthen control over the observance of its norms by civil servants and citizens.
The law deals with education, state systems, registered media, advertising, and cinema.
First of all, the bill does not allow the use of non-literary words and expressions, including obscene language.
The exception is foreign words, which have no analogue in the Russian language.
In connection with the law, a mandatory linguistic examination of draft normative acts will be introduced to check their compliance with the norms and rules of the Russian language.
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A state commission approves regulatory dictionaries setting norms and permitted foreign terms, and a 2024–2026 plan backs sanctions up to 10 million rubles against "excessive foreign vocabulary" in public spaces and media.

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The Russian government approved a plan of measures for 2024-2026 to implement the foundations of state policy to preserve and strengthen “traditional spiritual and moral values. ”
This is reported by “Kommersant ”.
The order includes a clause entitled “Protection from external destructive information and psychological influence, suppression of activities aimed at the destruction of traditional values in Russia, and counteraction to the excessive use of foreign vocabulary. ”
The plan provides for the definition of criteria for the excessive use of foreign vocabulary and measures to counter its use in public space, literature and art, the media, education and outdoor advertising.
In addition, the Russian authorities intend to monitor foreign media for coverage of “traditional spiritual and moral values ” and promote it among Russians living abroad.
As Kommersant notes, as part of the implementation of the plan, exhibitions about the war in Ukraine and “educational lessons ” in schools should be held.
It is also planned to publish literature on the military-historical topic.
Responsible for the implementation of the plan appointed Ministry of education, Ministry of education, Ministry of culture, Ministry of figures and authorities of subjects of Russia.
In February 2023, the State Duma passed a law prohibiting the use of foreign language in films, performances and media.
The ban also applies to official documents, geographical names and election campaigns.
The document provided for the introduction of “normative dictionaries ”,“ normative grammars ” and “normative reference books ”, in which the norms of the Russian language as the state language should be fixed.
Their approval should be handled by the Russian government.
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The prospective shift and other changes to the Regulations on Supply of Urban Facilities in Krasnodar will be debated in public hearings scheduled in late April

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Krasnodar, a city in southern Russia, may soon get rid of all billboards and signs that are not in Russian, as per a fresh proposal put out by the local government, RT reported.

The prospective shift and other changes to the Regulations on Supply of Urban Facilities will be debated in public hearings scheduled for late April, the city administration announced on Friday. Residents in the area would have two weeks to review the suggested improvements, it was stated.

"This seems a bit unpatriotic," says Krasnodar's mayor on foreign language billboards

The effort was started in response to the city's mayor, Evgeny Naumov statement in February that there were several signs and billboards in the city that were in other languages. "We have a lot of signs in English and who knows what other languages… Given the situation our country has found itself in, this seems a bit unpatriotic,” he noted alluding to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the standoff between Russia and the West.

At the federal level, similar concepts have also been advanced. Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin claimed in June 2022 that the lower house of parliament was considering a ban on signage that were in other languages. The chairwoman of the Duma Committee for Culture, Elena Yampolskaya, claimed at the time that there were between 30% and 50% more signs throughout Moscow using the Latin alphabet than those using the Russian alphabet.

RT in a report said Moscow's business ombudswoman Tatyana Mineeva says that the initiative has encountered criticism from the private sector, with shop owners noting that replacing billboards would be a very expensive operation. Early in December, a motion banning advertisements in foreign tongues was formally submitted to the Duma. Trademarks, however, are exempt from the potential ban. The project is being examined right now.

Russian government representatives are already subject to some limitations on the usage of foreign terms. A law prohibiting the use of "words and expressions that do not correspond to the norms of modern Russian" in formal contexts was signed by President Vladimir Putin in late February, with the exception of terminology that lacks an equivalent in the official language.

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The speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin before the Federal Assembly has already passed, nuclear threats to the world have traditionally been proclaimed, nothing unusual has happened.
Well, except for the next "Orvelovsky" aggravation among the Russian politicum, which once again indicates the near-death convulsions of the empire.
What the Russian propaganda has given out over the past 24 hours, the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security analyzed
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The basis of Putin ’ s much-publicized message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation was, of course, accusations of “solving the war in Ukraine ” against the West and traditional threats to use weapons.
The only difference is that Putin has officially suspended Russia ’ s participation in the Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms.
"The Russian Defense Ministry and Rosatom must ensure readiness to test nuclear weapons.
Of course, we will not do this first.
But if the United States conducts a test, and we will, ” — said the head of the Kremlin.
Such a step is actually another attempt to achieve negotiations on a peaceful end to the war with Ukraine.
This time there was a lot of blackmail.
However, Moscow for some reason does not take into account the fact that the West usually has a habit not to negotiate with terrorists, which, by the way, Russian politicians have actually recognized many leading countries in the world.
At the same time, with hints of a desire for dialogue, Putin continues to put sticks in the wheels of Russian diplomacy with his decisions.
For example, the assignment of the title of "Guards" 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade - for "mass heroism and courage, steadfastness and courage shown by the personnel of the brigade in combat operations to protect the Fatherland."
At the same time, the "mass heroism and courage" of this brigade was to take the lives of innocent people on board a passenger liner of Malaysian Airlines on July 17, 2014.
There were 298 people on board, all of whom died.
By the way, a court in the Netherlands ruled that the Buk, from which the Boeing was shot down, belonged to the 53rd brigade of the Russian Federation.
But Putin somehow decided that the Netherlands would get away with such a diplomatic slap.
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However, the ability to lie is one of the key skills to get into the Russian government.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the dominance of top propagandists in high positions.
A striking example is former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who recently said that Joe Biden ’ s visit to Kiev was originally agreed by Moscow.
“Biden, after receiving security guarantees, finally went to Kiev, ” he said.
But the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov later said something different, in fact refuted Medvedev ’ s claim.
According to the official, Washington did inform the Russians about Biden ’ s upcoming trip.
However, the United States did not receive any guarantees from Moscow.
Whether this is true is unknown, but the Kremlin ’ s general desire to increase its significance is too great.
He demonstrates this in relation to the Russian language, in defense of which a special law was recently adopted in the third reading.
According to the document, the use of borrowed foreign words is prohibited in public use - such as "trabl", "workshop", "fake", etc.
This applies to those definitions that have analogues in Russian.
The implementation of the law will be mandatory for authorities at all levels, courts, media, advertising producers, film screenings in cinemas, theatrical and cultural events, inscriptions on signs.
And this is a vivid repetition of history, because as early as 1929, a similar policy was pursued by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Then, under the fascist regime, the use of not only foreign words, but also individual letters was prohibited in the country.
Also, even dialects and local dialects were recognized as “strangers ”, and it was impossible to use them publicly.
It is likely that a similar fate will soon await the Russian Federation, which will not surprise anyone at all.
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Polls show 53% back Russian‑only inscriptions and 41% support banning foreign words with Russian equivalents.

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For the ban on the use of foreign words, if there is an analogue in the Russian language is 41 Russians, showed a survey of the service for job search Superjob, writes TASS.
The ban on Anglicisms is supported by four out of 10 Russians (41%).
In the first place among especially annoying borrowings - the word "okay", the list also includes such words as "reception", "challenge", "trigger", "party", "HYIP", "life hack", "fake", "longread", "coach", "light", "hand-made", "skills" and many others. others, "analysts said.
Also, respondents reported that they were tired of words such as "cringe", "crash", "chilli".
Most often, the ban on foreign words is supported by people over 45 years of age (47%) and people with children (48%), while among young people under 34 years of age, 29% support the ban.
Against the ban on anglicism were 36% of respondents.
The survey was conducted from 15 to 19 December, it was attended by 1,600 people over 18 years of age from 379 settlements of the Russian Federation.
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Italy proposes banning foreign words in official communications, fining €5,000–€100,000, and requiring Italian in job applications.

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Calling for the Italian language to be protected and nurtured, the draft bill claims that English “demeans and mortifies” Italians, and called on all public and private bodies to use the “language of Dante” to promote their goods and services, reports Reuters news agency. Photograph:(Reuters)

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The bill, which has been drafted by lawmakers of the nationalist Brothers of Italy party, aims to promote Italian language and imposes a fine of up to 100,000 euros ($108,750) if found violating the rule

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s party has proposed legislation that seeks to prohibit public and private bodies in the country from using foreign terms, especially English, in official communications.

The bill, which has been drafted by lawmakers of the nationalist Brothers of Italy party, aims to promote Italian language and imposes a fine of up to 100,000 euros ($108,750) if found violating the rule.

In order to become a law, the bill has to be approved by both houses of parliament. But there was no indication of when this might happen.

“It is not just a matter of fashion, as fashions pass, but Anglomania (has) repercussions for society as a whole,” said the text of the draft bill.

Calling for the Italian language to be protected and nurtured, the draft bill claims that English “demeans and mortifies” Italians, and called on all public and private bodies to use the “language of Dante” to promote their goods and services, reports Reuters news agency.

The draft also specifies that all job related applications, including names and acronyms, should be spelt out in Italian, with foreign words allowed only if they are impossible to translate.

The bill said the widespread use of English in Europe was “even more negative and paradoxical” given that Britain had quit the European Union.

The draft bill comes at a time when the incumbent far-right government takes measures to what it calls preserving the local culture.

Recently, it banned the use of laboratory-produced food to safeguard the country’s agri-food heritage.

When the Brothers of Italy party took office last October, it added the English term “Made in Italy” to the name of the industry minister, while Meloni occasionally drops foreign words into her speeches.

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Italian lawmakers have proposed a new bill that would ban the use of foreign languages, especially English, in all official communications.
Violators can be fined up to €100,000 (about HK $853,000), and it is understood that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also supports the bill.
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Fabio Rampelli, a member of the House of Representatives of the Brothers of Italy in the ruling coalition, has proposed a bill to ban the use of any foreign language in official Italian communications.
The bill has yet to be discussed and voted on by Congress, but Meloni reportedly supports it.
In particular, the draft proposes the use of English terms and "Anglomania" to humiliate and belittle the Italian language, pointing out that the situation has become more embarrassing after Brexit.
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The draft requires that any official agency personnel must have good "Italian speaking and writing skills" and prohibits the use of English words in all official documents, including abbreviations and names of agency positions.
In all official documents, the name of the foreign agency will be available in Italian.
The draft also stipulates that the main language of the relevant agencies and departments is Italian, even if they are dealing with people from non-Italian-speaking countries.
The draft also calls for mandatory promotion of the Italian language throughout Italy, with a minimum fine of 5,000 euros (about HK $43,000) for violators.
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Havana is dropping foreign business names to limit foreign loanwords.

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Store, Department, Home and other foreign words in the names of shops, cafes and restaurants in Krasnodar soon will not be.
The Cuban capital decided to abandon all foreign names.
The Cuban authorities obliged entrepreneurs to translate business into Russian.
“A sign in a foreign language or using transliteration or a sign in Russian has a big difference.
In part of the fact that 100% of our population can read, understand the sign in Russian.
And many, by ignorance and age, do not even understand what is written on these signs, ” said the chief architect of Krasnodar Artem Salamatin.
So far, the business has been given time until September 1.
But many entrepreneurs are ready to change now.
“Everything will be in Russian.
We will translate the site into Russian.
We'll change everything.
With pleasure, ” entrepreneur Hovhannes Hovhannisyan shared.
Words borrowed from foreign languages became an integral part of Russian many centuries ago.
Massive in our speech, they appeared in different iconic historical periods.
For example, the Mongol invasion.
And after the Patriotic War of 1812 - there were a lot of gallicisms, that is, French words.
Now in conversations predominate borrowing from English.
“We began to use foreign words very actively in areas where such activity had not been observed before.
First of all, it is the public sphere.
Social sphere.
Where actually came a lot of foreign words ”, – said the Chairman of the Association of teachers of literature and Russian language Lyudmila Dudova.
Russia is now determined to protect the language from excessive saturation with borrowings.
President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law “on mandatory observance of the norms of the modern Russian language when using it as a state language. ”
What specific rules are we talking about?
It's not clear yet.
They are compiled by a special government commission.
“The normative dictionary of the Russian language will be a single consistent comprehensive publication, which will be formed on the basis of dictionaries of the Russian language.
Interpretive, spelling, ” explained Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Tatiana Vasilyeva.
Thus, foreign words should disappear as much as possible from all official documents.
In addition, officials should not use anglicisms and other borrowings during public speeches and generally avoid them in their speech.
“There are so many wonderful and beautiful words in the Russian language.
But why then instead of the word mentor we say coach.
Well, it doesn't sound.
It seems to me that we need to get rid of such words that are imposed, ” said Lyudmila Skakovskaya, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Science, Education and Culture.
This law, according to officials, should protect the Russian language from attacks from abroad, where they have long been trying to abolish all Russian.
But now these sentiments have intensified even more.
The Kiev regime has long declared war on our culture and heritage.
Throughout the country, the monument to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is being demolished, because it is he who is considered the creator of the modern literary Russian language.
And it was the language issue that became one of the main reasons for the bloody confrontation in the East of Ukraine in 2014.
Residents of Donbass then did not agree with the nationalists, they did not refuse the Russian language.
“They use the term underdogs.
All these years, when the Maidan happened, they etched Russian in the Donbass, for them it is a symbol of communication.
The Russian world is hysterical.
What connects the Russian world?
The Russian language, ” said political scientist Yuri Svetov.
The fact that our language and culture need protection is also said by the leaders of other neighboring states.
During the autumn meeting of the heads of the CIS countries in Astana, the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called on his colleagues to create an organization for the protection of the Russian language.
“Our idea is to create an international organization in the image and likeness of the UN.
Using the positive experience of Francophonie.
The headquarters of which is located in Paris, ” said President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Rossotrudnichestvo recently conducted its own study abroad, which showed that openly Russophobic sentiments are present only among politicians.
But ordinary people continue to willingly learn our language and culture.
According to the United Nations, Russian is spoken by 258 million people worldwide.
It is one of the most popular in Eurasia, and attempts to abolish our culture have failed.
Abroad, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and other Russian classics are also read.
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Ukraine bans Russian toponyms and sets Ukrainian‑language quotas on TV and cultural events.

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The Soviet and Russian director responded to the proposal of the Commissioner for the protection of the state language in Ukraine Taras Kremen to save local TV from films without dubbing in Ukrainian.
According to Bortko, the proposal of the official is “stupidity ”.
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“The majority of the population of Ukraine still speaks and will speak Russian.
They want to thoroughly eradicate it, although it will not succeed based on a simple formula – whose language is the power.
It's an ancient Roman formula.
But it is quite difficult to eradicate the Russian language from Russian people and, no matter how much they want it, it is impossible that they do not do it, ” he said in a conversation with NEWS.ru.
At the same time, Bortko noted that the Ukrainian authorities can adopt various laws for this, and other countries can not prevent this in any way.
Recall that the law on the state language came into force in Ukraine in July 2019.
According to the document, all cultural events in the country should be held only in the state language.
For TV channels, a quota of 90% is set for programs in the Ukrainian language.

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Ukrainian laws on the abolition of the Russian language and culture are a manifestation of nationalism, said the columnist of the American edition of the National Review Michael Doherty.
The journalist said that he took part in a discussion about Catholicism and nationalism at the Catholic University of America.
During the conference, he recalled that this year the Verkhovna Rada adopted laws that prohibit the publication of Russian-language materials without an equivalent in Ukrainian.
“I heard a strong reaction in the crowd.
And after the speech, I was harassed by pro-Ukrainian viewers who said that I had just transmitted Kremlin propaganda, ” Doherty wrote.
He noted that in Western countries there are many language laws, but they, unlike Ukrainian, are mainly aimed at preserving the language and culture.
“There is a huge number of citizens of Ukraine who are not interested in learning the Ukrainian language.
The law is an attempt to persuade them to accept Ukrainian culture or cut them off from public life, ” the author concluded.
Earlier it was reported that in Kiev completely excluded the Russian language from the curricula of municipal institutions of preschool and general secondary education.
In Ukraine, they believe that this decision will help to avoid an escalation of tension in society and strengthen the protection of the educational space.
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Draft measures would require Ukrainian for paperwork, ads, signs, menus, and customer service.

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Content: The project implies a de facto complete ban on the use of the Russian language in the city.
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Draft Resolution
The draft resolution proposes to establish a ban on the use of any languages, except Ukrainian, in the paperwork and documentation of local authorities, enterprises and organizations of communal property.
In the same Ukrainian language should be all ads, signs, posters, posters, messages "and other forms of audio and visual advertising products", as well as price tags.
If the name is not written in Ukrainian, it must be transliterated.
In addition, it is proposed to oblige all sellers and waiters to speak with customers only in Ukrainian, and to switch to any other language only in case of initiative on the part of the client.
In the same language there should be a menu, the menu in other languages should also be presented only on request.
It is difficult to even imagine what would be the reaction of the world community if somewhere in Russia adopted a bill on who to speak what language.
Not to mention the Western countries, where this is impossible in principle.
However, our Western partners, as usual, demonstrate selective observation, and Maidan such antics, if they are translated into reality, will calmly get away with it.
Hence the long-understood conclusion: the claims of Western partners to the role of judge are inappropriate, because judges are not characterized by lies and hypocrisy.
Kiev historical
You can pay attention to the very name of the project: “On overcoming the consequences of the Soviet occupation in the language sphere. ”
From the point of view of MP Sirotiuk, who seems to have studied poorly at school, the city of Kiev was occupied by the Soviet Union, and before that, apparently, was part of not the Russian Empire, but some other state entity.
In addition, MP Sirotiuk suggests that the Russian language in Kiev began to speak only during the “Soviet occupation ”.
Previously, they probably spoke some other language, for example, in a non-existent Ukrainian.
The meaning of the phrase “mother of Russian cities ” is apparently unknown to him.
It is interesting to get acquainted with the list of famous natives of the city of Kiev.
Among them are many outstanding figures of Russian culture and history, in particular Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Alexander Vertinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Tatarsky.
There are also global celebrities like Mila Jovovich and Golda Meir.
The only category that is not on this list are the famous Ukrainian nationalists.
They were born anywhere, but not in the Russian city of Kiev.
Kiev today
Even after the translation of the vast majority of Kiev schools and universities into Ukrainian, after 25 years of propaganda, it is not so easy to understand what language the capital speaks.
In 2000 and 2001, two consecutive surveys were conducted: from one it followed that 48% of Kyivans speak Russian in their families (three times less in Ukrainian), from the other that 72% of Kyivans call Ukrainian their native language.
To understand how such a combination is possible, it is enough to recall the data of the famous Gallup poll conducted throughout Ukraine in 2006.
Sociologists offered a questionnaire with many points on national issues.
No one read the answers later.
Sociologists simply measured how many citizens took questionnaires in Russian, and how many in Ukrainian.
And the Russian-speaking figure of 83% was the answer to all questions.
We are talking about the fact that under the influence of aggressive propaganda, people begin to identify themselves as Ukrainians, although they continue to speak Russian.
We can also add that now more than half of the residents of the capital are first-generation citizens of Kiev, very recently the so-called Khutoryans.
But even in such a half-bleeding Kiev, there was no anti-Moscow fuse, as a result of which people for the second Maidan had to be imported from Galichin villages and towns.
The image of the enemy
The ban on the Russian language proposed by MP Sirotiuk in Kiev in the near future, most likely, will not be approved, at least in its current form.
Although you can expect anything from the Maidan authorities.
The faster credit billions are stolen, the less confidence in all political forces without exception, the less control the state has over its own territory, the more this control the outright bandits have, the greater the need for inflating the image of the enemy.
This is not the first such initiative.
In January, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Vyacheslav Kirilenko spoke about the preparation of a bill on the introduction of quotas for songs in the Ukrainian language on radio.
It should be at least 75%.
To the main goal - to create an image of the enemy and to write off all troubles on it - is added a secondary goal: to oust everything Russian from public space.
True Ukrainian culture cannot oppose Russia because it is part of Russia.
Against Russia stands only the culture of “Novoukrainskaya ”, created artificially and losing competition with a crushing score.
The only way to win it is to turn off the competitor.
Why do that?
The reason is that the current Ukraine does not support the ideology of the Maidan.
This ideology triumphed only because the majority remained silent and the aggressively obedient minority acted.
The majority cannot be united.
First of all, it needs to be cut off from the tongue.
Language is both a symbol and a source of identity.
Creating a new person
The consequence of all these actions is the de facto “cultivation of a new person ”.
In such a short historical period, it is impossible to wean a person to speak one language and force him to speak another, to abandon some cultural roots and acquire others.
It is possible to make it look like this, but the species will never become the essence, "New Ukrainism" will always have the disgusting smell of a sectarian test tube, and this education, like any unnatural formation, will never be viable.
However, we have nothing to rejoice at, despite the “non-Ukrainian Kiev ” and despite the absurdity of the Maidan ’ s attempts to come up with a history and identity.
While we laugh at all this, millions of Ukrainians are subjected to serious psychological and ideological processing, and it will take a very long time for their heads to be cleaned of this garbage.
And the Russian side has not yet found a way to do something with the current Ukraine, which lost the Maidan.
When the Maidan began, Moscow ’ s “liberals ” who sympathized with it argued that they were not against Russia, they were only against Putin.
That this was not the case was clear then and even more so now.
Ukraine ’ s second president, Leonid Kuchma, once wrote a book called “Ukraine is not Russia. ”
This is the whole ideology, both cultural and political, of Maidan power.
There is no second meaning there.

Serbia and Quebec regulate scripts or signage to promote the state language, and these francization rules can impose business costs and delays.

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Companies face confusion as they prepare for Quebec's new language rules next year

A person holds a Quebec flag during Fete Nationale in Montreal, Saturday, June 24, 2023. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
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In just under a year's time, important pieces of the new French language law are set to come into force for companies operating in Quebec. Although many are preparing for the laws to be applied, the future requirements are still causing some stress, notably because of the paperwork involved and what some say is a lack of clarity.

As June 1, 2025 approaches, Isabelle Jomphe and Brittany Carson, two lawyers at law firm Lavery, have their hands full. Since the adoption of Bill 96 in 2022, they have been helping numerous companies in Quebec and abroad to comply with the various amendments.

"We're coming up to the last law. So, we need to look for the little additional details to try to advise companies as well as possible and avoid unpleasant surprises on June 2, 2025," said Jomphe in an interview.

The lawyer devotes much of her time to the issues surrounding future trademark regulations.

One of these concerns exterior commercial signage. French will have to appear "clearly predominant" when a company's trademark is displayed in a language other than French. A company that has a name with an expression taken from a language other than French is also affected by the measure.

"It may require merchants to make major changes to their storefronts if they don't already meet this criterion," said Jomphe.

Carson is working on the issue of francization, which from now on will affect small businesses with 25 to 49 employees. They must register with the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) before June 1, 2025, and begin the process of francization.

This involves carrying out a linguistic analysis to demonstrate the widespread use of French at all levels of the organization and obtaining a francization certificate from the OQLF.

Carson said many of the questions she receives are from companies headquartered outside Quebec.

"For people who may work on a daily basis with people outside Quebec who don't speak French, who don't write in French, it's quite a challenge," says the labour and employment lawyer.

Still a "lack of understanding"

According to François Vincent, Quebec vice-President at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), there is still a "lack of awareness of what's coming" among its members.

"Especially the administrative burden of being told that they function well in French," he added, referring to the documents companies will need to complete as part of the francization process.

CFIB estimates that it will take between 20 and 50 hours for companies to answer francization-related questions. And based on the latest OQLF data, most of them will be told that they are meeting their linguistic obligations, Vincent believes.

As of March 31, 2023, 66 per cent of certified companies "obtained their certificate without having to implement a francization program," according to the OQLF's 2022-2023 annual management report.

With companies facing many challenges today, the francization process may be far down their list of priorities, Vincent said.

"Not that they don't want to do it, or that they don't operate in French. It's just that it's a real rush at the moment. The first consequence of the labour shortage is that the company director is on the floor putting out fires," he said.

His organization is busy informing its members with a web page and webinars dedicated to the new obligations. On its website, CFIB has also launched a countdown to the new rules.

Vincent believes that Quebec could make an "extra effort" to better inform companies.

The OQLF said it's planning "awareness-raising actions to inform companies of the new requirements."

"It will offer personalized assistance to enable companies to validate their correction project, if necessary," the office said by e-mail.

Grey areas

Implementing the new rules is causing "frustration" among retailers, said Damien Silès, general manager of the Retail Council of Quebec.

"Because it takes time, it takes money. And it was already very strict, so it's making some of our retailers a little grumpy," he said, noting that trademark display legislation was already updated a few years ago.

Véronique Proulx, president and CEO of Quebec Manufacturers and Exporters, noted that her members are "still very skeptical" about the usefulness and relevance of the measures.

"There's also a lack of clarity," she pointed out. "What we've often asked the OQLF for is a clear guide."

The absence of an application guide creates a certain "concern among companies, because you don't know whether you're complying or not," said Proulx.

Many are eagerly awaiting the final version of the regulations on the language of commerce and business to clarify the new provisions.

"There are still a few gray areas," noted Jomphe. "There are still points that are open to interpretation, so we're hoping for more clarification."

Quebec's Ministry of the French Language has said that "the regulation will be made public shortly."

Silès hopes that retailers will be given more time to comply.

"Eighty per cent of the 32,000 businesses in Quebec have fewer than 20 employees. So they don't have the same means to change," he explained.

As to whether it will be flexible or tolerant in its application, the OQLF said that "certain transitional measures have been planned, notably to allow the sale of products already manufactured on this date that would not comply with the new rules."

"The Office will work with each company to find a solution adapted to its situation," the organization added.

Those interviewed reiterated that companies are keen to promote the French language and want to comply with the legislation.

"There's a desire to do things right," says Carson. But clear rules and a flexible approach are needed to enable "greater buy-in," agreed Jomphe.

The ministry maintains that the government's priorities "in terms of promoting and protecting the French language and the objectives of economic stakeholders are reconcilable."

The new measures in the Official Language Act came into force gradually, some as early as 2002 and others last year.

- This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on June 26, 2024.

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Egypt mandates Arabic on business names, money, and public signage, with fines up to £10,000.

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Law to protect the Arabic language in the House of Representatives
In an attempt to return the Arabic language to the forefront and its rightful place in Egypt, after its decline significantly during the past years and the acquisition of foreign languages on the interest of the Egyptian people and lack of interest in the mother Arabic language, which is considered part of the Egyptian identity.
Advisor Dr. Hanafi Jebali, Speaker of the House of Representatives, referred the draft law on the protection of the Arabic language, which was submitted by MP Sulaf Darwish, to a joint committee of culture, media, education and economic affairs, pending discussion by the committee.
Protection of the Arabic language
Darwish stressed that the aim of this law is to protect the Arabic language, which is the official language of the state, which is one of the elements of the national identity of Egypt and a symbol of its culture, which requires it to protect, develop and develop its use, by preserving the integrity of the language in writing and speech, and to preserve it from all foreign influences.
Mandatory things in Arabic
The draft law approved some things that must be committed to writing in Arabic:
Names and addresses of public and government institutions.
Streets, neighborhoods, squares, parks, beaches, parks and other sites, with the exception of sites named after non-Arab flags.
Commercial, financial, industrial, scientific, social, tourism and other public, private and private institutions.
Egyptian banknotes, coins, stamps, medals and niachin.
Foreign certificates and equivalency decisions.
The draft law pointed out that it is permissible to add to the Arabic script the equivalent of a foreign language, provided that the Arabic language is larger and more prominent.
In case of violation of the aforementioned text, he shall be punished with a fine of not less than 1000 pounds and not more than 10000 pounds.
Law of the Academy of Arabic Language
The President of the Arabic Language Academy, Dr. Salah Fadl, said that there are many laws aimed at enhancing the importance of the Arabic language, and the Arabic Language Academy submitted yesterday to the Committee of Arab Affairs in the House of Representatives a tight and accurate project prepared by a committee of professors of Arabic science in the Arabic Language Academy and was reviewed from a scientific and legal point of view.
Salah added in statements to "Echo of the Country", that the goal of the draft law submitted by the Arabic Language Academy or the draft law submitted by MP Sulaf Darwish are two dangerous things for the Egyptian society.
Preference of foreign language over Arabic
He continued: "The first thing is the preference of foreign languages over the Arabic language in its homeland, which does not happen in any country in the world, and according to the Egyptian Constitution, the Arabic language must be the prelude, and if it is necessary in declarations, documents, correspondence or other means of linguistic exchange to use a foreign language, the origin must be the Arabic language.
Salah explained that the essence of the laws submitted to the House of Representatives is to protect the Arabic language in implementation of the constitutional text that binds the state and preserves its identity that the Arabic language is the primary language in Egypt.
Constitutionality of the Arabic Language
He continued: "According to this constitutional text, all state correspondence, dealings, documents and everything issued by it must be in Arabic, and if it is necessary to include translation into a foreign language, it can be accompanied by a foreign translation.
He pointed out that if dealing with a foreign body and the text of the document is in a foreign language, it must be accompanied by a correct Arabic text that is the original.
Big mistakes in advertising.
As for the second goal, the President of the Arabic Language Academy explained that we often find in the ads two serious errors, namely, we find that the declaration in a language other than Arabic at all or confuse the Arabic language with the vernacular dialects, and this must be put to an end so that our Arab face is correct according to the Constitution and the need to preserve our identity and culture.
Purpose of Laws
Salah added that the aim of these laws is not to punish and hate the Arabic language or force its use, but to advocate its use as an affirmation of identity and culture and implementation of the constitutional text.

Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands are limiting English in higher education to prioritize national languages.

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Content: Bilingual Teaching in Northern Europe
The most important policy is to avoid the construction of cars behind closed doors, and to make steel in earthworks.
While the government is blindly promoting bilingual teaching, I wonder if it has ever opened its eyes to see how the "international pioneers" of all-English teaching now view this measure?
If the decision-makers themselves are not “international ” enough, how do they know how to make others international?
Nordic countries have a positive attitude towards learning foreign languages, mainly because the country is small and the number of language users is small, so it is necessary to know the languages of other countries, especially large countries, in order to be able to "go out".
For this reason, the four Nordic countries and the Netherlands have always been the model students of so-called “internationalization ”.
However, in the past decade or so, foreign language learning, which used to be quite diverse, has gradually become more and more English oriented.
In particular, the languages of these countries (with the exception of Finland) are Germanic, and it is easy to learn English. Since the 21st century, these countries, led by the Netherlands, have been more active in promoting the so-called "internationalization of higher education" (in fact, English), and have begun to increase the teaching of all English.
Today, 23% of university courses in the Netherlands are taught only in English, and another 12% of courses can be taught in Dutch or English.
In fact, there have always been different views within Nordic countries on this measure, but with the banner of “internationalization ”, opponents are regarded as conservatives.
However, in 2018 the Netherlands began to see a full-scale rebound.
The first is that the Dutch Universities Union (VSNU) has proposed a new “(anti-) internationalization ” strategy, which is to limit the number of foreign students who only speak English, and at the same time to strengthen the Dutch language proficiency of Dutch students.
However, the Dutch Association for Quality Education (BON), which is made up of teachers at all levels of schools, is not satisfied with the adjustment because it believes that the all-English teaching will cause the Dutch language to be “eliminated ” in the university and become the colloquial language of ordinary people.
Therefore, the Association requires that there is no "educational reason" (rather than "economic reason", that is, to attract foreign students) and that English should not be used in the classroom.
What ’ s more, the English of teachers is often just a “global ” (a kind of inferior broken“ English ”), and the quality of the curriculum is mostly poor, and ultimately the higher education that is meant to be the top has become a disaster of “rushing to ruin ”.
In recent years, Nordic research on all-English teaching in universities has also confirmed the various drawbacks of this poor quality English teaching.
Teachers such as: preparation time, unable to explain clearly, the course content is diluted, unable to drive the discussion, the classroom atmosphere is boring; students such as: difficult to understand, the course is boring, low interest, unable to participate in the discussion, dare not ask questions and so on.
It can be seen that due to the need for language accuracy in teaching, replacing national language teaching with a foreign language is not only a gain, but only a loss, no gain.
After the first Dutch attack on all-English teaching in 2018, there was a wave of retreat over the next five years in the Nordic region, which is the most enthusiastic about all-English teaching (in fact, Italy had already ruled all-English teaching “unconstitutional ” by the Constitutional Court in 2017).
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark requires permanent foreign teachers to be able to teach in Danish within six years. The University of Oslo in Norway requires Norwegian to be the main language of instruction, English to be used only “when appropriate and necessary ”, all students and teachers must learn Norwegian, and the development of scientific and technical terminology in Norwegian must be a priority for schools.
In June, the Dutch Ministry of Education mandated that at least two-thirds of all university courses be taught in Dutch.
It can be seen that these countries are aware of the hegemony of English caused by all-English teaching, which has seriously threatened the survival of their own language and culture.
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Limits on foreign‑language signage and advertising can affect trade and tourism.

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Content: The ban on signs in foreign languages means another bickering with entrepreneurs, says the leader of “New people ” Alexei Nechaev.
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“Another ban means new fees from entrepreneurs.
They will either have to change the signs for their money or pay fines.
This will not only affect foreign companies.
Many Russian brands use English in advertising.
And cafes and restaurants lure tourists with inscriptions in a language they understand, ” Nechayev said in a telegram channel.
In his opinion, import substitution went somewhere wrong.
“It is necessary to give business freedom, and not to invent new prohibitions, ” the deputy believes.
Tax incentives and affordable development loans will give much more than replacing the Latin alphabet with the Cyrillic alphabet, he stressed.
As reported earlier IA REGNUM, the Deputy speaker of the state Duma Pyotr Tolstoy (“United Russia ”) does not agree with Nechaev.
In his opinion, in Russia, all signs should be written in Russian, and for tourists (and those who feel themselves in Russia as a tourist), you can place a translation in small letters.
It is important to do this right now: Russia must regain itself and rely on its language, its culture and its people.
The cargo-cult is over, he stressed.
The bill on the prohibition of signs in foreign languages was developed by the State Duma Committee on Culture.
Read earlier in this story: Vice speaker of the state Duma insists on a single language space in Russia