The Association of Russian Language and Literature Teachers has offered a suggestion on how to protect the Russian language from foreign influences and loan words – introduce a linguistic police force.



“This ‘linguistic police’ can, for example, be a division of the police department … with time the project could make a difference,” said Roman Doschinsky, a member of the presidential language council.

“Take a look now at the name of our cafe, shops … [Our children] see distorted images of words, words where the Latin alphabet is mixed with the Cyrillic alphabet. And [they] absorb this.”