Vladimir Putin has signed the executive order on the Presidential Council for the Russian Language. The Council consists of 42 members - media executives, university rectors, linguists and other prominent personalities - working under supervision of Presidential Advisor for Culture Vladimir Tolstoy. Olga Rebkovets, an NSU graduate and the head of the famous project 鈥淭otal Dictation鈥�, received an invitation to join the Council, too.
Olga says, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a high honor and great pleasure for me to receive such an invitation. I鈥檒l try to work most effectively. Our Total Dictation is now one of the most efficient and successful projects aimed at popularizing the Russian language in Russia and abroad, which transforms into a public system of further education. Moreover, the project allows gathering a huge database of scientific materials based on the participants鈥� papers, by analyzing which we can make conclusions on the current language processes and trends. I believe my personal experience and the experience of conducting the project will prove helpful in such a Council.鈥�
The Council aims include promoting state politics for the support of the Russian language, ensuring citizens鈥� rights to use the state language, coordinating the activities of government authorities and public organizations, strengthening the Russian language positions in the world as well as widening its territorial extension and application fields.
