The issue of granting the Russian Language a status of the second state language should be included in the agenda of Russia’s foreign policy, Eleonora Mitrofanova, Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO, said. RIA Novosti reported about this.
“After a generation we will come to the point, that people (in former USSR countries) will stop speaking Russian. For this reason it’s necessary to exert special efforts,” Mitrofanova said, adding that Russia should be granted a legal status in former USSR countries.
She introduced the data by UNO (for 2015), stating that from the population of 138 million of CIS …read more
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