On the Implementation of the Language Policy of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The present article is devoted to important questions of implementation of the language policy of the Russian Federation both inside and outside of Russia, particularly in the post-soviet countries. The relevance of the study is due to the Federal Law “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On the State Language of the Russian Federation” that came into force on February 28, 2023 The work formulates the problems of implementing the state language policy in a number of Moscow universities and discusses ways to solve them. As a result of summarizing empirical experience the article makes the conclusion that at present the Russian language in its state capacity can be taught to the citizens of the Russian Federation in the “Stylistics” block of the “Russian Language and Culture of Speech” course. In turn, the tasks now facing teachers go beyond teaching students to read documents; the discipline is evolving towards national selfidentification by native speakers. Also the authors raise again the issue that the linguistic definition of “state language” is underdeveloped. The work summarizes the experience of a number of Moscow universities in developing the export of education abroad.