Paul Goble
Staunton, June 5 – Moscow has marked the Day of the Russian Language on June 6 since 2010. Now, Putin has now proposed creating another holiday, the Day of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia on September 8. His proposal isn’t the change of heart it might appear but rather consistent with a further reduction in the use of these languages.
At a session of the Council for Realization of State Policy in Support of Russian and the Languages of the Peoples of Russia, the Kremlin leader devoted most of his attention to Russian and prevent unwanted borrowings from other languages that threaten it (kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77104).
But in the course of his remarks, Putin said that “besides this, I propose creating a Day of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia to be marked each years on September 8, the birthday of Rasul Gamzatov, author of the legendary ‘Zhurvali’ (stoletie.ru/lenta/putin_predlozhil_otmechat_8_sentabra_den_jazykov_narodov_rossii_290.htm).
According to Putin, the Dagestani poet (1923-2003) considered two languages as native to him: Avar in which he wrote and Russian, thanks to which his works acquired world-wide glory,” clearly exactly the message Putin has promoted among non-Russians since he came to power.
In Putin’s vision, the new holiday will undoubtedly promote much the same notion that non-Russians can hope to reach a broader world only via Russian and that September 8 will be yet another step to reduce the use of non-Russian languages to festivals pushing that ideal (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/06/putin-working-to-reduce-nations-within.html).
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