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In Tatarstan, everyone went to the front - to Latin. The movement with the name "Latin Front" arose after the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of Russia, which finally banned the Tatar population from the official translation of...

In Tatarstan, everyone went to the front - to Latin. The movement called "Latin Front" arose after the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of Russia, which finally banned the Tatar population from the official translation of writing from Cyrillic to Latin. With an appeal to the people "Let's defend the Latin alphabet!" Fifteen national organizations spoke - from the Tatar PEN Center to the World Congress of Tatars.

“The ban on the Tatar Latin script,” the appeal says, “means an encroachment on the right of the people to freely determine the ways of developing language and culture ... The day is not far off when they will try to liquidate the Republic of Tatarstan, uniting it with the Ulyanovsk region into the Volga-Kama province. It will happen if we don't resist. The Latin script has become the front line of defense.”

The initiators of the movement call for independent study of the Latin alphabet and for its use in private correspondence, schools, libraries and even in the press. They also believe that no one can forbid studying Latin in circles.

The experience of circle work, even under the conditions of the ban in Kazan, can be said to be historical. At the end of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Fedoseev organized almost the first Marxist circle in Russia here. And the communist manifesto brought here from Germany, presumably, was typed in Latin.