Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, was detained in Russia in 2022 for marijuana possession and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

She was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for possessing cannabis oil vape cartridges, which are illegal in Russia.

The US government classified Griner's detention as "wrongful", implying she was a political pawn.

The US released arms trafficker Viktor Bout in exchange for Brittney Griner.

The deal sparked criticism and raised concerns about future arrests of US citizens by America's adversaries.

Griner's experience in the Russian penitentiary system was marked by harsh conditions, leading her to cut her hair for easier living.

Griner expressed a newfound appreciation for life, saying tomorrow is not guaranteed.

Brittney Griner's release may impact the global sports community's perception of Russia's human rights record.

The US government's ability to secure releases of wrongfully detained Americans may be influenced by the level of attention to their cases.

The Biden administration's approach to freeing Americans held overseas is cautious and bureaucratic.

The Kremlin says Brittney Griner's prisoner swap does not mark an improvement in US-Russia relations.

The US-Russia relations are in a "sorry state", according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

The US will continue to support Ukraine and press Russia to free detained Americans like Paul Whelan.

The prisoner swap was separate from US-Russia relations and the Ukraine conflict, with 'zero' effect on the US approach to the Ukraine conflict.

The US government fears prisoner swaps could incentivize adversaries to capture more Americans, and is working to free other Americans held in Russia.

Russia's international reputation may take 20-25 years to recover from its actions in Ukraine, with its business sector potentially shrinking to North Korea's level.

The IOC, FIFA, and IIHF applied sanctions on Russian athletes and teams after the invasion of Ukraine.

Brittney Griner, an American basketball player, was detained in Russia in 2022 for marijuana possession and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

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The situation surrounding Brittney Griner's case is looking a little less bleak, thanks to the recent developments brought about by negotiations between the U.S. and Russia.

In early November, the WNBA star had been transferred to a penal colony in the Russian republic of Mordovia. There, she began fulfilling her nine-year sentence for drug possession. As reported by Reuters, authorities initially arrested Griner in February 2022 after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were discovered in her luggage at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. While she attempted to appeal the ruling, it was ultimately upheld by a Russian court.

"This has been [a] very traumatic experience, waiting for this day, waiting for the first court, and getting nine years for a crime that I was barely over the significant amount," she said at the hearing (via CBS News). "I don't understand the first court's decision to give one year less than the max when I've been here almost 8 months, and people with more severe crimes have gotten less than what I was given... I really hope that the court will adjust this sentence, because it's been very, very stressful and very traumatic to my mental and psyche, being away from my family and not being able to communicate." However, there is now renewed hope that Griner could be released, with a Russian diplomat claiming that a swap could happen sometime in the future.

Russian diplomat says there's 'always a chance' for a swap

Not all hope is lost, after all. According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Russia is not turning its back on the possibility of a prisoner exchange with the U.S. As reported by the New York Post, Ryabkov told reporters that there is "always a chance" when asked about the likelihood of a swap taking place before the end of the year. However, he noted that in the past, there had been multiple instances when it seemed as if Russia would agree to a swap, only for the plan to fall apart. If the prisoner swap does take place, Ryabkov said it would "send a positive signal that not everything is hopeless in Russian-American relations."

In the meantime, it looks like Brittney Griner has her work cut out for her. Maria Alyokhina, a former member of the band Pussy Riot, didn't mince words when she spoke to NPR about her own experience at a Russian penal colony. "It has a bit better conditions than [the] original gulag system from the 1950s," she said, but added that it's still "a labor camp." She described the grim reality she endured while serving out her own sentence, calling it inhumane. "For 100 women, there are like three toilets and no hot water," she recalled, adding that the penal colony is merely a "legal slavery system."

According to a statement released by her lawyers (via BBC), she is trying her best to survive and is "doing as well as could be expected and trying to stay strong as she adapts to a new environment."

She was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport for possessing cannabis oil vape cartridges, which are illegal in Russia.

The US government classified Griner's detention as "wrongful", implying she was a political pawn.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia for months, and a coalition of human rights groups today urged President Joe Biden and Russia to "reach an agreement" to secure her release, and Secretary of State Colin Blinken also spoke to Griner's wife today.
WNBA player Griner, who won two Olympic gold medals for the United States, was detained at a Moscow airport on February 17 after being charged with carrying several e-cigarette boxes containing cannabis oil in his luggage. The maximum sentence is 10 years in prison.
A Russian court last week extended her pre-trial detention to July 2.
Senior State Department officials said Antony Blinken spoke with Greiner ’ s same-sex wife, Cherelle Griner, this evening, but did not disclose details.
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Three weeks ago, the American basketball star Brittney Griner arrived at a Russian penal colony known for torture, beatings and slave labour to begin a nine-year sentence following her arrest at a Moscow airport in February for possession of vaping cartridges containing hashish oil.

But in a stunning twist on Thursday, Griner’s plight as an unwitting pawn in a high-stakes geopolitical struggle came to an abrupt end, as she arrived in Abu Dhabi from Moscow and boarded a plane home to reunite with her family. She landed in San Antonio, Texas, early Friday morning.

In exchange for Griner’s release, the US released Viktor Bout, a notorious arms trafficker who was serving a 25-year sentence for conspiring to kill US citizens and aiding a terrorist organisation.

The deal was met with jubilation from Griner’s family and supporters. But the controversial swap for Bout — as well as the exclusion of Paul Whelan, another US citizen imprisoned in Russia — also drew criticism and raised questions about how America’s adversaries might leverage arrests of its citizens in the future.

US officials began working toward Griner’s release as soon as she was apprehended in Russia in February, but the effort became more concentrated on prisoner swap negotiations once the State Department declared in May that she had been wrongfully detained.

In July, US secretary of state Antony Blinken and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on the phone for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February. During the call, Blinken pressed Lavrov to accept a “substantial proposal” from Washington to release Griner and the former marine Whelan, who has been detained in Russia since 2018 on what the US and his family say are trumped-up espionage charges.

Americans had offered to free Bout, people familiar with the discussions said, but the Russians said they also wanted the release of Vadim Krasikov, a former colonel from Russia’s domestic spy agency who was convicted of murder in Germany last year.

In the ensuing months, officials said, Washington made a number of offers to Russia in an attempt to secure the release of Griner and Whelan.

However, Biden administration officials said that in recent weeks it became clear that Moscow would only accept a one-for-one swap. According to one senior administration official, “the choice was bringing Brittney Griner home right now or bringing no Americans home from Russia right now”.

Despite the Biden administration’s insistence that they had no choice but to exclude Whelan from the deal, Republican lawmakers and others denounced the decision, as well as facilitating the release of Bout, who is also known as “the merchant of death”.

“The Biden administration has allowed Viktor Bout, a dangerous arms dealer who was convicted of conspiring to kill American law enforcement, to walk free,” said Mike Rogers, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.

“This move to appease Vladimir Putin will only encourage further hostage taking by Russian security forces,” he added.

US officials described Biden’s choice as a painful one, adding that they would continue to work for Whelan’s release. Washington previously secured the release of Trevor Reed, another former marine, via a prisoner swap in April.

People familiar with Thursday’s prisoner exchange likened the episode to “a scene from the Cold War”, with Russian and American planes meeting on the tarmac at an airport in Abu Dhabi.

The Russian plane carrying Griner arrived first, one of the people said. American officials and people familiar with the events said the basketball star was upbeat on the tarmac, saying she was looking forward to returning home.

The Griner-Bout swap marks a rare instance in which the US and Russia have been able to find common ground since Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending the west’s relationship with Moscow to its lowest ebb since the Cuban missile crisis.

According to people familiar with the matter, the Americans and Russians directly negotiated the details of the swaps, with UAE officials including president Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan helping to facilitate the mechanics of the transfer.

It is not unusual for third countries to aid in brokering international diplomatic agreements such as prisoner swaps between hostile countries.

Sheikh Mohammed and Putin discussed the matter when they met in Russia in October, and they spoke on the phone on Wednesday, people familiar with the meetings said. Yousef al-Otaiba, UAE ambassador to the US, was present for the exchange on Thursday and had helped to co-ordinate details on the American side.

On Thursday, some pro-Kremlin commentators hailed the swap as a return to diplomacy. “Everyone sees through this exchange that Moscow and Washington are holding secret negotiations and can make a deal,” Sergei Markov, a political scientist and former member of Russia’s parliament, wrote on Telegram. “And everyone hopes that means Moscow and Washington can make a deal to end the war in Ukraine.”

However, analysts and US officials said that while the breakthrough was a sign that the two sides could get things done when their interests align, it was not evidence of any larger thaw in relations. Biden administration officials added that the recent conversations with Russia about Griner and other prisoners were limited to the release of wrongfully detained Americans.

“The exchange doesn’t do anything to change the situation for bilateral relations. There are lots of issues where they are in open confrontation,” said Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

He said the otherwise dire state of relations between Russia and the west was thrown into sharp relief last week, when Moscow abruptly pulled out of talks on renewing the New Start treaty, the only remaining agreement governing the countries’ nuclear arsenals.

“This is a global stability issue: the last remainders of arms control are falling apart, which could lead to an arms race and a higher risk of dangerous incidents,” he said. “The trajectory we’re on is making that all the more likely.”

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Los Angeles, California - Brittney Griner made her WNBA comeback for her Phoenix Mercury team on Friday, after spending 10 months in a prison in Russia.

In her first competitive game for almost two years, the center finished with 18 points and six rebounds, but could not prevent Phoenix from slumping to a 94-71 loss to the Los Angeles Sparks.

"It felt good. It felt real good. It felt like the last time I played," Griner said in an on-court interview at the end of the first quarter.

"I appreciate everything a little bit more, all of the small moments," she added. "Tomorrow is not guaranteed, you don’t know what it’s going to look like."

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Griner had been given nine years in prison in Russia for drug possession after being detained in 2022 at a Moscow area airport for having a small amount of cannabis oil in her luggage.

She was released after 10 months in exchange for the notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was serving a 25-year sentence in the US.

VP Harris present for Griner's "day of joy"

US Vice President Kamala Harris was also at the Crypto.com arena for the game and gave the Mercury a pre-game speech.

"Thank you for all that you did in supporting Brittney. Because I know that was rough and so difficult for you as a team, as a family," Harris told the team.

Griner said "it was nice to be able to see her face-to-face and thank her for everything."

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For the first time since last season, Phoenix coach Vanessa Nygaard opened her pre-game comments without announcing how many days Griner had been jailed.

"Today is a day of joy. An amazing, amazing thing has happened," Nygaard said.

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(NEW YORK) -- The family of American Paul Whelan, who has been imprisoned in Russia for years, said Monday he feels "abandoned" by the U.S. and that "his resilience is shaken" in the wake of Russia's arrest of a second American on espionage charges.

In a Friday phone call with his parents, Whelan, a businessman and former U.S. Marine, said "he feels as though the U.S. government has abandoned him," according to his brother David.

"His struggles have been apparent in his letters and in his phone calls over the years," David Whelan wrote. "But now, Paul seems rattled like never before, understandably apprehensive that the U.S. government will choose not to bring him home again, now that there is another American wrongfully detained by the Kremlin."

Last month's arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has brought renewed calls from U.S. officials for Russia to release Whelan.

Like Whelan, Gershkovich, 31, has been charged with espionage. Whelan, 53, was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Gershkovich is currently being held in pretrial detention. Russian authorities blocked American diplomats from gaining to access to the imprisoned reporter for weeks, but on Monday U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy tweeted that she was finally able to visit him.

The U.S. government has designated both Whelan and Gershkovich as "wrongfully detained," allowing additional resources to be applied to their cases.

But the reaction to Gershkovich's detention has also shown how the backing of a large media organization -- the Wall Street Journal -- can place more attention on a case -- and more pressure on the White House.

"The speed at which Evan’s case has been handled by the administration should be replicated for every case," Jonathan Franks, the spokesperson for a coalition of families of Americans detained abroad, the Bring Our Families Home Campaign, said last week. "Unfortunately, we have seen firsthand that the reality is, that the speed with which the Government acts is very different for detainees who aren’t famous or journalists."

In the nearly four years and four months since Whelan was arrested, the U.S. has secured the release of at least two other Americans designated "wrongfully detained": WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, neither of whom was accused of espionage.

Griner was released in December in a prisoner swap for a Russian arms dealer after being held for nine-and-a-half months. The WNBA had made a significant effort to draw attention to her case and pressure the Biden administration.

Reed had been held for two years and was released in exchange for a Russian drug trafficker. He was freed less than a month after his parents protested outside the White House and secured a meeting with Biden in the process.

Sources within the State Department say that Whelan’s ongoing detention is not for lack of trying on the part of U.S. officials, but the result of Russia’s unwillingness to negotiate and how severely the Kremlin views the espionage charges against him -- allegations the U.S. strongly rejects.

In early March, Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly revealed the U.S. had made a second offer to Russia for Whelan, calling it a “serious proposal” but declining to disclose any additional detail.

Blinken has repeatedly urged Russia to accept the agreement, but Moscow has broadcast little interest and there is no indication that that the administration has made any attempts to enhance the deal.

Whelan's family has maintained close contact with the State Department and the White House National Security Council over the years since Whelan was first detained in 2018 -- primarily through his sister Elizabeth.

But Elizabeth Whelan, he said, is now "going to pause her interactions with the State and National Security staff until they stop wasting her time and come up with something more than thoughts and prayers."

"It is unfair and unreasonable to put the burden on wrongful detainee families to grab the White House's attention, to do the creative work, to ensure that the different parts of the government are communicating clearly and working effectively to bring Paul home," he continued. "There is a literal cost to families to do this advocacy."

The White House and State Department did not respond when asked for reaction to David Whelan's statement.

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When Russia invaded Ukraine, it created a cascading effect of boycotts, sanctions, and bans for goods, trade, travel and sport.

While each will impact the country, sport has always been Russia’s tool — a mechanism to purport dominance, and build a positive global image and national identity.

As Germany’s Athleten Deutschland, an independent athlete association aiming to protect the rights of elite German athletes said:

“The Putin system for many years has deliberately used sports for its purposes…Sporting success is seen as a sign of national strength and superiority. Athletes are utilized to produce this success. Any means have been used to achieve this — be it the violation of human rights…or the operation of a state-orchestrated doping system.”

Soon after Russia’s invasion, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) applied sanctions on Russian athletes and teams. With this, Russia’s capacity for athletic success on the world stage, image in sport, and its ability to present the nation as a collaborative member of global sport vanished.

“This invasion of the Ukraine resulting in widespread bans across sporting federations has probably taken sport as an image building tool right out of play for Russia for the foreseeable future,” says University of Guelph professor Dr. Ann Pegoraro, who is director of the International Institute for Sport Business and Leadership.

In particular hockey, which became synonymous with Russian success during the Soviet Union era, will no longer be an instrument of president Vladimir Putin’s nationalism.

“Perhaps the one sport that has helped them the most, hockey, has iced Russia from participation,” Pegoraro added. “The professional hockey leagues are cutting off ties to Russia, sponsors are removing Russian players from campaigns and the sport where they could once claim dominance and intense rivalries will not be an avenue to showcase their athletic dominance. Images of Russian athletes creating moments of nationalistic pride through sporting success will not be seen for some time to come.”

Some, however, don’t believe governing bodies such as the IOC have the resolve to maintain sanctions beyond the end of the conflict, even if the impact to Ukraine and global stability remains.

According to Professor Barbara Revel, Durham University’s Director of Research who specializes in Olympic History, the IOC’s “antipathy toward taking actions that it sees as overtly political” is unlikely to last. Dr. Revel predicts the IOC could reverse decisions in time for the 2024 Olympics.

“The current bans are a virtually cost-free way for the IOC to hop on the bandwagon of international shock and outrage about Russia's war of aggression. The IOC leadership is surely calculating that such bans will have no bearing on the next Olympic Games which are not going to happen until summer 2024.”

Historically however, there is precedent for sanctions continuing beyond war.

Following WWI, five countries, including Germany, were ostracized from the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. Following WWII, both Germany and Japan were not invited to the 1948 London Summer Olympics, nor the St. Moritz Winter Olympics.

Immediately following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the IOC recommended similar sanctions asking that “International Sports Federations and sports event organisers not invite or allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in international competitions.”

The IOC itself has historically shied away from banning nations, though.

“The IOC’s reactions to world conflicts are often more complicated than they appear,” explains Western University assistant professor and social history of sport researcher MacIntosh Ross.

“There’s a common misconception that Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary and Germany were barred from competing at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics,” Ross continued. “That’s not strictly true. At the time, the IOC still believed that banning nations, even nations that fueled bloody world wars, was a political decision and therefore off limits. Instead, the IOC told organizers not to invite them.”

The same is true today with Russia, whether it relates to state-sponsored doping or the current invasion of Ukraine.

The IOC has traditionally claimed “political neutrality,” stepping away from conflict, and has not “banned” Russian athletes from upcoming competition, including the 2024 Olympic Games.

“During the 21st century, the IOC has been hesitant to exclude nations on the basis of armed conflict, even when it violates the Olympic Truce,” Ross explains. “The IOC’s move to allow National Olympic Committees to participate even when a nation is sanctioned feels hollow. It’s got to the point where one has to question whether the philosophy of Olympism means anything at all to the IOC, because the bits about supporting the ‘harmonious development of humankind’ and ‘promoting a peaceful society’ seem to be an afterthought, even as Russia invades Ukraine.”

Despite the Olympic Truce — which aims to allow athletes and spectators to participate in sport safely — as IOC President Thomas Bach stated in 2020, “The Olympic Games cannot prevent wars and conflicts. Nor can they address all the political and social challenges in our world. But they can set an example for a world where everyone respects the same rules and one another.”

The IIHF echoed this. President Luc Tardif utilized nearly identical verbiage claiming “The IIHF is not a political entity and cannot influence the decisions being taken over the war in Ukraine.”

While it is true that the Olympic Games, nor any venue of sport, can prevent war, sport can be at least one small part of the solution — part of the pressure to end conflict.

During the apartheid era, South Africa was expelled from the 1964 Olympics, and from the International Olympic Committee altogether in 1970 due to their racist laws of segregation. South Africa did not compete in another Olympic Games until 1994, three years after the end of apartheid.

Presently, in response to Russia, international federations, leagues, and private teams immediately moved to exclude and isolate Russia — both from competition, and financially.

“This will be a personal injury for Vladimir Putin,” said Pegoraro. “These bans are removing the privilege of sport from Russia, and also squeezing it financially with loss of revenue.”

With the exclusion of Russia from upcoming international competition, the lasting impact on Russia’s global image, superiority built through sport, and the success of Russian athletes abroad will be felt by the Kremlin.

The longevity and resolve of decisions made by the IOC, IIHF and FIFA, however, is yet to be seen.

As the IOC’s own statement says, the organization “may adapt its recommendations and measures according to future developments.”

The IIHF echoed the indecisiveness of future action.

“The IIHF Council has not left out the possibility of further actions impacting future events or other IIHF activities but hopes above all for a swift and peaceful resolution to the war,” their statement said.

Further action could preclude participation in competition beyond 2022, or the adaptation of recommendations could involve the return of Russian athletes.

In Pegoraro’s eyes however, the world view of Russia in sport has changed. The damage is done, and it will take Russia longer to recover, whether athletic success is found or not, from the devastating and unfounded invasion of Ukraine.

“The inability to compete on the international stage will also cut off whatever Russian government that emerges post this invasion from the opportunity to use sport to rally its citizens, and unite them even briefly behind the country,” she said.

“Often sport events bring nations together and can help facilitate much needed internal political dialogue to heal divided nations. And we are seeing many Russian individuals protesting this invasion, indicating that the nation is indeed fractured. Sport will not be able to help heal that divide for some time.”

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President Joe Biden waited until former Marine Trevor Reed was out of Moscow, had been successfully exchanged for a Russian prisoner in Turkey, and was safely on a plane bound for the U.S. before calling Reed’s family.

Reed had spent nearly 3 years in a Russian jail after being arrested in 2019 on charges of assaulting police in Moscow. But Biden had been concerned about contacting his family too soon and risking upsetting the sensitive deal before Reed was securely out of Russia’s reach.

When Reed was finally airborne, Biden told his family the good news and released a statement saying Reed’s return was “a testament to the priority my Administration places on bringing home Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained abroad.” He promised to continue pressing for the release of other Americans being held in Russia, including Paul Whelan, who was arrested on suspicion of espionage in a Moscow hotel in 2018. Reed was freed in exchange for the release of Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been sentenced in the U.S. in 2011 to 20 years on drug smuggling charges.

While other U.S. citizens captured abroad have been released during the Biden Administration, Reed’s was the first case in which Biden was willing to hand over a prisoner being held in the U.S. as part of the terms of the release, a step previous administrations had taken. Biden’s deliberate approach to freeing Americans held overseas has been marked by a cautious and bureaucratic decision-making process, according to two people involved in the negotiations, and a slow pace that has been frustrating to some families whose loved ones are held in foreign prisons.

“We continue to press for the release of Paul and we’re not done. We’ve not given up. It’s not over until every American who is wrongly detained is back home,” says a White House official. “It’s never fast enough for the people waiting for their loved ones and we get that. We understand their pain.”

While Biden decided to keep President Donald Trump’s lead hostage negotiator Roger Carstons in place, Biden’s careful tactics have stood in stark contrast to the free-wheeling and sometimes capricious way Trump went about bringing U.S. citizens home. Trump prided himself on pressing to get Americans released from prisons overseas, and relished the photo-ops that followed. But Biden and his advisors worry that prisoner swaps could exacerbate other points of friction and create more incentive for adversaries to capture Americans.

“It is night and day—with Trump, it was clearly something he saw as a gain for him, especially the way he did it very publicly,” says Vice President and Executive Director of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement Mickey Bergman, who worked with the Biden Administration on Reed’s release. In the previous Administration, getting a message directly to Trump was the key. “Trump had little to no policy process: if you can get in front of the President and if he likes it, he’ll do it,” Bergman says.

The Biden Administration though, “They’ve taken their time. They are a process-oriented administration,” Bergman says. “There’s a lot of these things that take an excruciating amount of time for people like me and for the families who are arguing for their release.”

Bergman traveled to Moscow at the end of February with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson to meet Russian officials about Reed’s and Whelan’s cases, just before the Russian military launched its most recent invasion in Ukraine. It was on that trip that Russian officials made clear they would release Reed if the Americans handed over Yaroshenko. There was added urgency to Reed’s case because he was showing possible symptoms of tuberculosis. Richardson and Bergman brought the terms back to the Biden Administration and offered to manage the swap themselves, without official U.S. involvement, Bergman says. Biden decided to go ahead and have the U.S. government manage the exchange. “The credit is to Biden for actually making the decision and getting it done,” Bergman says.

But Reed’s detention was part of a broader global problem the U.S. faces. The arbitrary detention of Americans “for completely bogus crimes designed to gain leverage” has become a more common practice among a number of foreign governments, says a former senior State Department official who was recently involved in high-level negotiations for the release of Americans. “It reflects the changing global dynamics, the changing power relationships, as countries are circling each other trying to figure out how to get an advantage,” the former official says.

Reed’s release comes at a time when experts involved in helping negotiate the release of Americans detained overseas are seeing an uptick in Americans being arrested and held as bargaining chips, including in Venezuela, Iran, China. Venezuela recently released some Americans, after a visit from a high-level U.S. delegation, and holds several others. Iran is holding four American citizens. In Russia, addition to Whelan—who American officials say was not involved in spying—Russian authorities arrested WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner in February on suspicion of traveling with cannabis oil in vape cartridges. A person familiar with the talks around Griner’s case said that, at this point, U.S. officials are concerned that raising too much attention to her detention could play into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hands by turning her into an even more high profile hostage, making it harder to get her released.

“Using wrongful detention as a bargaining chip represents a threat to the safety of everyone working, traveling and living abroad,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said April 27, the day Reed was released. “Our objective continues to be to bring Paul Whelan home and any American who is not with their family and is being detained overseas.”

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Russian state news agencies, citing the Kremlin, said Friday that a prisoner swap involving Russian arms supplier Victor Bout and American basketball star Britney Greiner should not be seen as a step toward improving bilateral ties between Moscow and Washington.
TASS news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying relations between the two countries remained “in an unfortunate state. ”
Following the Saudi-Emirati statement, which announced the success of the mediation led by UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to exchange prisoners between Washington and Moscow, US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that basketball player Britney Grainer, who has been detained in Russia since February, is “safe ” and“ on her way ” to the United States after a prisoner exchange with Moscow.
Biden tweeted: "Moments ago I spoke with Britney Grainer.
"She's safe and she's on a plane en route to the United States."
Biden acknowledged Washington ’ s failure to free Paul Whelan, who is imprisoned in Russia, unlike basketball player Britney Grainer, but vowed never to abandon efforts to free him.
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The US will continue to support Ukraine and press Russia to free detained Americans like Paul Whelan.

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The official said that the United States had been in discussion with Russia for months despite the sharp deterioration of relations between the two powers over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

US marine Trevor Reed was jailed in Russia for assaulting the police.

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The United States does not expect any improvement in relations with Russia and will keep full support for Ukraine despite Wednesday's prisoner swap with Moscow, a US official said.

"It represents no change -- zero -- to our approach to the appalling violence in Ukraine," a senior US official told reporters.

"These discussions with the Russians that led to this exchange were strictly limited to these topics -- not a broader conversation or even the start of one," he said on customary condition of anonymity.

The official said that the United States had been in discussion with Russia for months despite the sharp deterioration of relations between the two powers over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

The official said that Reed -- jailed for allegedly assaulting Russian police officers while drunk -- appeared to be "in good spirits" and was on his way back to the United States.

President Joe Biden in turn freed Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was arrested in Liberia in 2010 for drug trafficking.

The US official said that he has been handed into "Russian custody" but declined further details.

The official said the United States would keep pressing Russia to free other detained Americans including Paul Whelan, a former security official at an auto parts company whom Moscow has accused of espionage.

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The prisoner swap was separate from US-Russia relations and the Ukraine conflict, with 'zero' effect on the US approach to the Ukraine conflict.

The US government fears prisoner swaps could incentivize adversaries to capture more Americans, and is working to free other Americans held in Russia.

Russia's international reputation may take 20-25 years to recover from its actions in Ukraine, with its business sector potentially shrinking to North Korea's level.

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Payback for the war in Ukraine: what Putin ’ s Russia has already faced – what awaits Russians in the future
The Russians are paying for the Russian invasion of Ukraine today, but the worst is yet to come.
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Putin ’ s Russia, which treacherously attacked a free Ukraine, is already suffering serious losses.
And this is only the beginning of the collapse that the aggressor must endure.
Political expert, diplomat Vadim Trukhan told Kommentarii about this publication in more detail.
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Five Consequences for Russia ’ s Invasion of Ukraine
At the moment, there are different scenarios for the end of the Great Patriotic War, which Ukraine is forced to wage against Putin ’ s Russia.
From the optimistic (Russia ’ s capitulation after a while under the pressure of terrible losses that their underarmy, which turned out to be a propaganda fad) – to a nuclear catastrophe, which can be driven into a dead end by a war criminal Putin.
However, the consequences for Russia can be predicted now.
First, economic.
Russia will need at least 20-25 years to resume normal cooperation with its previously traditional partners.
Consequently, its population is doomed to difficult times, and its business will have to shrink to the level of the DPRK.
Second, political.
Russia has lost the right to be considered a great and powerful empire.
The adoption of a new democratic constitution with a guaranteed right to secede from the federation for each of its 89 subjects is the only way to gain hope for some kind of forgiveness from the international community in some distant future.
At the same time, a large number of subjects of the current federation will certainly leave it.
Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Bashkiria are the number one contenders.
Third, foreign policy.
Russia has lost the right to remain a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and in general to be both in the UN and in all international organizations.
The international community, after the capitulation of Russia, should have the courage to impose a sanitary moratorium for the next 25 years on the participation of Russia and / or entities formed on its territory, on membership in international organizations.
Only after the complete demilitarization and de-Sovietization of this space will the issues of introducing the successors of current Putin ’ s Russia into world life be resolved selectively and very carefully.
Fourth, legal.
An international tribunal will be set up for Russia to try war crimes committed by Putin and his henchmen.
For the venue of the trials will be chosen one of the Ukrainian cities, the most affected by the barbarism of the Rashist-Nazi hordes.
In addition, all those who were involved in the aggression, including officers and soldiers, must go through trials on the territory of Ukraine and bear a fair criminal responsibility with the subsequent loss of life to hold any state and electoral office anywhere.
Fifth, the humanitarian consequences.
Russian culture, art, sports for a long time were out of civilizational processes.
The international community will not forgive all those sorrowful singers, “artists ”, etc., who supported the maniac Putin and his terrorist state group or kept quiet like obedient sheep.
The Russians, as well as all subsequent governments of states that are formed in the current Putin empire, will repent for crimes against Ukraine
But the main and most painful consequence for the Russian bloody beast is the following.
Every citizen of Russia, regardless of nationality, as well as all subsequent governments of states that are formed in the current Putin empire, will repent for the crimes they have committed against Ukraine and Ukrainians.
This burden will be felt in dozens of generations.
Although in the future, when the Russians clean up the mess, pay Ukraine reparations and indemnities, Ukraine will develop relations with the states that are formed on the territory of the former Russian Federation.
At the same time, acting as a kind of whach-dog, designed to ensure that in this part of the globe there is no regime that wants another greatness at the expense of neighbors and peace and security in the world.
It's not an easy mission, but we're gonna have to do it.
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Italy has drafted a bill to ban English in public and private bodies, with fines of up to 100,000 euros, to promote the Italian language.

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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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The Russian government has submitted to the state Duma a bill to protect the Russian language from excessive use of foreign words.
The document implies control over the observance by officials and citizens of the norms of the Russian literary language and the inadmissibility of the use of foreign words, with the exception of those that do not have common analogues in the Russian language.
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Fighters for the purity of the native language waited, because the discussion about it among linguists, writers, scientists goes on constantly, then quiet, then flaring up with renewed vigor.
The initiative of the Government of Russia, which decided to wedge itself into the disputes of professionals, is quite understandable and understandable.
Today, when the United States and the entire Western world are in a rush to destroy, eradicate, wipe out all Russian, the frequent use of Anglicisms in everyday life is at least unpatriotic.
In fairness, it should be noted that borrowing from other languages is a constant process.
Lenin also proposed "to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily", and the intricacies of relations and mutual accusations of Slavophiles and Westerners entered the textbooks, as well as the textbook proposals to replace other people's "galoshes" with their "wet feet", and "sidewalks" - with "toptalisches".
In the 1940s, a new wave: the struggle against cosmopolitanism suggested “for everything Russian against foreign ”, including in the language.
A printer is a printer?
Meanwhile, all – both supporters and opponents – agree that there are concepts in their native language that came after the phenomena, realities created in other countries, and therefore the words denoting them, well, not ours, but they can not do without them.
A striking example is the computer, IT technologies and everything related to them.
The word “printer ” cannot be replaced by a Russian translation from English, since“ printer ” does not mean a device for printing, but a person engaged in this process.
By the way, this phenomenon is not new: even under Peter I, who “cut through the window to Europe ”, dozens of Dutch and German words for technologies and mechanisms poured into Russia.
And in opera, many terms are borrowed from Italian and have long been part of the Russian language.
And we calmly use such words as “federation ”,“ sphere ”, “national ”,“ commission ” and many others that came from foreign languages, but are firmly entrenched in our own.
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Meanwhile, one cannot but agree with the authors of the bill: recently, the speech of deputies of different ranks, officials, political and economic experts, heads of federal and regional, and sometimes local authorities is simply replete with foreign words that have simple and understandable analogues in their native language.
And if we are almost reconciled with merchandisers (commodity scientists in our own way), then what do you think of the expression from the fashion world “in one bow ”?
The well-known vegetable has nothing to do with it: in English look - look, therefore, in Russian it is an image, appearance, look, etc. In texts related to business, "marketplace" (literally from the English place of trade), as well as "startup" (start, start, take the first steps) or "webinar" (training video conference live).
In the field of education, they like to talk about “bullying prevention ”: this word means ridicule, bullying of children at school by peers.
Increasingly, “campus ” sounds, while the translation from Latin is a familiar campus for many of us, or“ coach ” instead of the usual “coach ”,“ mentor ”.
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I will also swing at my favorite “quest ” recently: again with the English“ game, search ”.
I do not like the sequestered budget, because it is “cut ”, but transparent is more to my liking, because it is“ open ”, “transparent ”.
And who will prove to me that “exchange of practices ” is better than the usual“ exchange of experience ”?
Or for days on TV reported about the participation of Russians in the championship "Abilympics".
You will break the language by pronouncing, although this is only a competition in professional skills among the disabled, in another way they are also called the “Olympics of opportunities ”.
From the same series, the widely distributed “WorldSkills ” (WorldSkills) is also a competition, but students studying a particular profession.
We have such competitions took place in the times of the USSR, then they were safely forgotten, and now they are back again, only in a Western manner.
And here is another illustrative example: the all-Russian social project “Agrofoodsharing ”.
We divide abracadabra into parts: agro - of course, something related to agriculture.
In English, food – food, share – share.
As a result, we get a movement of agricultural producers who want to share with other people the surplus of their crops.
The idea, of course, is good, right, but why break the language?
And finally from the sore: "solving cases." Brilliant!
In English, the word “case ” has two meanings: a briefcase, a suitcase and the second – circumstances.
Therefore, in Russian literally "the decision of circumstances" or, as the know-it-all Internet interprets, "the study of the situation and the choice of a suitable solution."
They will leave themselves
on your own?
Most likely, the desire to cleanse the language by introducing a law at the state level is an attempt to distance oneself from the West, its influence, to isolate oneself from someone else ’ s and alien mentality, lifestyle and dubious values.
However, it is not very clear what it will look like in practice: will there be lists of prohibited words and expressions or just recommendations, and addressed to high-ranking officials and other “persons in the TV ” – after all, it is with their filing that all sorts of newfangled borrowings from foreign languages often go“ to people ”.
However, a few decades ago, our teachers at the Yelets Pedagogical Institute hammered us, students, that the language is a self-cleaning system, and all harmful, fake after a while will simply disappear.
It has always been so, and I want to believe it will be so.
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I assume that all borrowings are from our haste, eternal saving of time even on pronunciation and writing of words.
We usually write in sms a short, indifferent “OK ”.
While in the native language for this almost a dozen words: “good ”,“ okay ”, “agree ”,“ give ”, “let ”,“ good ”, etc. No wonder there is a catch phrase: “Speech is better than any passport ”...
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The emergence of a law in the Russian Federation on the protection of the Russian language from excessive borrowing is appropriate, but there should be no excesses in this matter.
This opinion on the air of the radio "Sputnik in Crimea" expressed the head of the Crimean branch of the Foundation for the development of civil society, sociologist Natalia Kiseleva.
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Earlier, a draft law on amendments to the Federal Law "On the State Language of the Russian Federation" appeared in the system of ensuring legislative activity.
The amendments provide for the protection of the Russian language from the excessive influence of borrowed words.
In particular, we propose the emergence of normative dictionaries that fix the norms of the modern Russian literary language, where foreign words cannot be entered, with the exception of those that have no analogues in the Russian language.
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“I am a supporter of this bill.
I think it should be adopted a long time ago, because we really see an unjustified dominance of foreign words.
At the same time, I, of course, do not propose to abandon all borrowed words - many of them have long and firmly entered the Russian language and became part of it, "Kiseleva said.
The sociologist emphasizes that it is impossible to introduce language restrictions in colloquial speech, especially among young people, and this is not the case in the new bill.
At the same time, in her opinion, the official use of the language should be regulated:
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“It ’ s about officials, the media.
For example, the latest fashionable foreign word "hub" - representatives of government agencies use it everywhere, although there is a great word in the Russian language "node": transport hub, interchange and so on, "- gives an example of a guest ether.
Dictionary for the replacement of anglicisms needs improvement – opinion
In addition, according to Kiseleva, it is appropriate not only to regulate the use of the Russian language in the official sphere, but also to simplify the language of regulatory documents so that the ordinary citizen can understand legal norms, which now often require interpretation by lawyers.
Earlier, Andrei Kibrik, a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the relevant bill, expressed the opinion that the artificial regulation of any language, including the Russian language, is a vain and even harmful idea, since borrowing is part of a natural process that cannot be stopped or reversed.
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Ukraine's language ombudsman can impose fines on officials who violate the language law.

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Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language Taras Kremin notes that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President Oleksiy Arestovich and Head of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration and Head of the Regional Military Administration Vitaly Kim violated the law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language, according to which fines of up to 12 thousand hryvnia are provided.
This is stated in the message of the language ombudsman on the website, Ukrainian news reports.
The review of the use of state language by officials was conducted from March 1 to June 30 through a selective survey of broadcasting, official pages of central executive bodies, local self-government bodies, military administrations, on the Internet platforms Youtube, Facebook, Telegram, as well as through a search for key queries with the names of heads of bodies and their deputies on the Youtube network.
According to the report of the review, the working language of the activities of state authorities, local governments, enterprises, institutions and organizations of state and communal ownership was state.
At the same time, the service in a non-state language is recorded in the activities of some officials of local councils, heads of military administrations, heads of municipal enterprises.
Cases of the use of non-state language were both on television, and on the pages of social networks and Telegram channels.
Thus, communication in a non-state language was recorded by 8 heads of military administrations, 15 officials of local self-government bodies, 2 heads of institutions of communal ownership.
In particular, the language law was violated by Zelensky, Arestovich, Kim, Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, Head of the Military Administration of Kryvyi Rih Oleksandr Vilkul, Chairman of the Luhansk Regional State Administration, Head of the Regional Military Administration Serhiy Gaidai, Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko, Kharkiv Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov, Dnipro Head Boris Filatov.
For example, it is noted that the President violated the language law during a meeting with foreign guests - British businessman Richard Branson on June 29 and actor and director Sean Penn on June 28.
The Ombudsman notes that there are currently far fewer cases of using a non-state language on TV channels than in March and April this year, but some officials continue to violate the language law.
"As early as July 16, such actions may have consequences in the form of administrative penalties - warnings and fines," Kremin said.
July 16 comes into force subparagraph 1 of paragraph 7 of the section "Final and transitional provisions" of the law on language, which imposes fines.
Since then, the Commissioner will be able to fine officials of state authorities and local self-government, heads and employees of enterprises, institutions and organizations of all forms of ownership, other individuals who violate the law.
According to the results of the protocol on an administrative offense, a decision may be made to recover in the form of a warning or a fine from 3,400 to 8,500 hryvnia, if the violation is committed for the first time, or from 8,500 to 11,900 hryvnia - for a repeated violation within a year.
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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.
Define clear criteria
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 Official Languages Act in Canada aims to protect and support both French-speaking and English-speaking communities.

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While Quebec is asking the federal government to adopt a differentiated approach between French-speaking minorities outside Quebec and the province's English-speaking community, Justin Trudeau's Quebec lieutenant, Pablo Rodriguez, says the federal government must be there for both language communities.

"It's true that there is only one endangered language in North America and that's French," the heritage minister said Friday on the sidelines of an announcement of support for the tourism sector in the Montreal area. "That being said, the Official Languages Act and the Government of Canada are there for both minority communities.

"The Trudeau government recognizes that French is threatened and that Quebec has a role to play in ensuring its survival," said Rodriguez. However, the federal government's approach will have to ensure that members of Quebec's English-speaking community can receive essential services, such as access to justice and health care, in their own language.

Quebec is asking the federal government to take a different approach to francophone minorities outside Quebec and the anglophone community within Quebec in its proposed reform of the Official Languages Act.

Quebec's Minister of Canadian Relations Sonia LeBel sent a list of 14 amendments to federal MPs studying the bill this week, reports Radio-Canada. She is asking elected officials to recognize that the needs of the two communities are different.

LeBel also asked the elected officials to stop referring to the promotion of English in the new version of the law and to speak only of the promotion of French and the "development of minorities."

Rodriguez did not want to comment directly on LeBel's request.

"I think it's important that Quebec be able to express its opinion, but in the end, it's the Standing Committee on Official Languages that will analyze this and decide what action to take," he said.

- This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on June 10, 2022

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ChinaZ.com November 30 news: Today, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on the Comprehensive Strengthening of Language and Character Work in the New Era.
Among them, in terms of accelerating the construction of basic language and writing capabilities, the opinions pointed out that to strengthen language civilization education, strengthen the standardization and management of the use of languages and characters in various new media such as the Internet, resolutely curb the spread of vulgar and violent online languages, and build a healthy and civilized online language environment.
At the same time, we will strengthen the standardization of language and writing.
Strengthen the standardization of language and characters in the industry system, and strengthen the supervision and inspection of language and characters in schools, institutions, news and publishing, radio and television, network information, public services and other fields.
The standardized language requirements will be included in industry management, urban and rural management and the creation of civilized cities, civilized villages and towns, civilized units, and civilized campuses.
Strengthen the monitoring research and normative guidance of new words, new words, alphabetic words, foreign words, etc.
Strengthen the management of the use of words and spelling of geographical names.
Encourage localities where conditions permit to carry out the work of standardizing urban and regional languages and writing.
Continuously improve the language standardization system and standard system.
Establish a system of international standards for Chinese language education.
Do a good job of issuing and implementing standards, promoting publicity, consulting services and evaluation and certification of standards.
In addition, we will promote the innovation and development of language information technology.
Give full play to the basic supporting role of language information technology in the construction of national informatization and intelligence, improve the information processing capabilities of language and characters, and promote the financial media application of language and characters.
Vigorously promote the deep integration of language and text with artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other information technologies, strengthen research on key issues such as natural language processing in an artificial intelligence environment and research and development of original technologies, strengthen the transformation and promotion of language technology achievements, and support the development of the digital economy.
Strengthen the construction of language and text information platforms, build a global Chinese learning platform, and provide high-quality learning resources and information service resources.
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On November 30, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on the Comprehensive Strengthening of Language and Character Work in the New Era (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions) today.
In particular, it is necessary to strengthen the education of language civilization, strengthen the standardization and management of the use of languages and characters in the Internet and other new media, resolutely curb the spread of vulgar and violent Internet languages, and build a healthy and civilized Internet language environment.
It is necessary to protect the development of language resources, including the construction of an online Chinese language and script museum.
"Opinions" proposed to promote the innovation and development of language and text information technology, including vigorously promoting the deep integration of language and text with artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other information technologies.
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ISLAMABAD: A three-day ‘Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival’ concluded here on Sunday as it has become one of the important elements of Islamabad’s cultural and literary scene for the last eight years.

Indus Cultural Forum, a volunteer organisation comprising literary and cultural enthusiasts arranged the festival in collaboration with Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), said a news release.

The festival was supported by the National Heritage and Culture Division of Federal Government, Culture Departments of Governments of Sindh and Balochistan provinces, Friedrich Nauman Foundation (FNF), Forum for Language Initiatives, Idar Brae Taleem-o-Taraqi (IBT), Sindhi Language Authority, ECO Science Foundation, Society for Alternative Media and Research.

Speaking at the concluding ceremony, Indus Cultural Forum Chairman Dr Manzoor Hussain Soomro said that the eight-year journey of the festival on a voluntary basis and with limited resources is a testimony that with hard work, enthusiasm, and dedication, we can do a lot to promote and protect Pakistan’s true diverse face.

He called for greater collaboration between the government and other institutions to sustain such initiatives.

ICF General Secretary Ashfaq Hussain Chandio said that the festival is a great source of bringing people from all language communities together.

He said the exchanges of ideas and creative works between writers, artists, poets, and activists during these three days are further cultivated across the year and these three days become the source of years-long bonding and collaborations between them.

Senior member of ICF, Munawar Hassan said linguistic diversity is the greatest strength of the country, which should be a cause to bring people together and not divide them.

Director General PNCA, Muhammad Ayub Jamali in his remarks said that institutions like PNCA were open to collaboration with civil society organizations. It is part of the mandate of the PNCA to promote the linguistic, artistic, and cultural diversity of the country.

Earlier in the day, the speakers called for an education policy that centered around the cognitive abilities of children to learn effectively in their mother language at the primary level and gradually move to other languages. Zubair Torwali, Aftab Ahmed, Ameer Haider, Inamullah Shaikh, Shahid Rahman, and others called for revisiting current education policies and practices to pave the way for learning in the mother language.

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Russia has an institutional infrastructure to support languages in bilingual and multilingual regions, preventing marginalization and promoting preservation.

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UNESCO said that Russia can offer the world leadership in the preservation of languages
In every bilingual and even multilingual region in Russia, an institutional infrastructure for language support has been created and is functioning, said Deputy Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO Information for All Programme Yevgeny Kuzmin.
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Russia needs to start studying the preservation of languages   of small peoples abroad, the Russian side can offer the world leadership in these issues.
This was stated on Thursday by Deputy Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the UNESCO program “Information for all ” Eugene Kuzmin at the forum FADN“ Language policy in the Russian Federation ”.
“We can offer the world leadership in the preservation of languages.
Russia can teach people in other countries language policy and realistic methods of preserving the languages and cultures of indigenous peoples. <... > We need to start work on studying the preservation of languages of small peoples in foreign countries and in general in interesting places, "he said.
Kuzmin noted that in Russia, as well as in the world as a whole, languages are marginalized.
“This is a global civilizational process: minority peoples are assimilated, mixed marriages, the outflow of rural population to cities and other regions, urbanization, the desire of people to get a good higher education in capitals and abroad, ” he explained.
At the same time, in every bilingual and even multilingual region in Russia, an institutional infrastructure for language support has been created and is functioning.
According to him, all institutions work well and as can prevent the marginalization of languages, contributing to their preservation and even revitalization.
"In Russia, this is happening better than in many other, if not all, multilingual countries," he added. - Although international comparative studies have not been conducted here, it can be argued that Russian language policy is one of the best, if not exemplary.
Russia can offer the world to develop criteria, parameters of language policy, criteria for its evaluation in each direction, initiate and lead such studies in order to identify the best policies and practices.
We have every opportunity in this country. ”
Kuzmin also drew attention to the UNESCO Atlas of Languages.
“It is us, not the Anglo-Saxons, who should decide at what level of danger our languages are and understand what the vitality index is, and then, judging by the atlas, we have at the same level of vulnerability the Chuvash language in Russia with 1.5 million Chuvash and the language of the Indian tribe in the United States with a population of 250 people, ” he added.
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In Odisha, India, the government is revising its multilingual education policy to improve mother tongue-based instruction.

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Content: Odisha reworks mother language education policy

The policy proposes that one chapter in the textbook curriculum on different tribal languages shall be included to inform the students and future generations.

Published: 10th August 2023 11:42 AM  |   Last Updated: 10th August 2023 11:42 AM   |  A+A-

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BHUBANESWARA revised multilingual education (MLE) policy the Odisha government is working on looks to bring in wholesome changes in the mother tongue-based instruction in the state. The revision will address language issues faced by tribal children starting from pre-school education and at the same time, push research and post-graduation (PG) studies on different tribal languages, said secretary of the department Roopa Roshan Sahoo.

As part of the policy, it has been proposed to develop a ‘Kuni Calendar’ for children under 3 years of age in consultation with the Women and Child Development (WCD) department for the effective cognitive development of the targeted children.

For children in the 3 to 6 years age group who visit Anganwadi centres, materials in tribal languages in the shape of pictorials, calendars and toys would be developed. In subsequent grades, particularly in primary classes, the learning materials would be developed keeping in view the school curriculum and the local tribal way of living incidental to the school curriculum.

The policy proposes that one chapter in the textbook curriculum on different tribal languages shall be included to inform the students and future generations. Besides, tribal language should be included as a language subject in school and college curriculum. At the PG level, tribal language could be included as a language subject and interested students and scholars can do research on it.

For developing the new MLE curriculum, the department plans to collaborate with WCD, School and Mass Education and Higher Education departments. The draft policy will be ready by the end of this month.

Sources said while the department plans to engage more tribal language teachers either through outsourcing or regular appointments in its schools, the existing teachers in the department-run schools will be trained in new MLE interventions.

Along with Saura, Kui, Oram, Koya, Bonda, Munda, Santali, Juang, Kissan and Kuvi language teachers, the department will now appoint Ho language teachers in its schools as MLE teachers. Currently, 64 tribal language teachers are posted in tribal schools to impart teaching in the mother tongue in elementary grades. It has been planned to train 1,400 elementary teachers on tribal languages during 2023-24.

The state currently has 21 spoken tribal languages of which, Satali is the only language which has been included in the eighth schedule of the Constitution. It is taught in its own Ol Chiki script while the rest of the tribal languages have Odia scripts. In fact, only Santali, Ho, Saura, Munda and Kui languages have a written script.

Supplementary textbooks in Sadri, Munda, Desia, Koya, Gondi, Kuvi and Saura languages have been printed and distributed to students of the target language. These books in 14 more tribal languages are under the process of printing and distribution, sources added.

Special focus on Santali language

The ST and SC Development department will form an expert committee to put forth proposals for the Santal community on the promotion and preservation of the Santali language and Ol Chiki script. This was decided at a meeting held under the chairmanship of chief secretary PK Jena. It was also decided that the Academy of Tribal Languages and Culture (ALTC) will take the lead in the publication and promotion of tribal literature and tribal life as a publishing house.

Books from classes I to V written in Ol Chiki script will be utilised for certificate courses to non-Santali people to learn the basics of the language at ALTC. Besides, non-credit/non-assessment-based language subjects in tribal languages will be introduced in schools from classes VI to X.

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