Putin ordered the creation of a single corpus of Russian language dictionaries for officials and journalists
President Vladimir Putin ordered the creation of a single corpus of dictionaries, reference books and grammars of the modern literary Russian language for use in schools, authorities and the media. this He stated at a meeting of the Russian Language Council in the Kremlin. “We are faced with attempts to artificially, rudely, sometimes absolutely unceremoniously reduce the space of the Russian language in the world, push it to the periphery,” Putin said.