Russian law » language http://rublawg.com Russian legal reality Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:33:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Tatar as the second official language http://rublawg.com/2009/tatar-as-the-second-official-language/ http://rublawg.com/2009/tatar-as-the-second-official-language/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:05:30 +0000 Evgeny http://rublawg.com/2009/tatar-as-the-second-official-language/ Russian newsagents reported that the Tatar commodities have offered to establish Tatar language as the second official (state) language of the Russian Federation. They motivate their initiative by results of the last national census, when about 4% of population said that they considered themselves as the Tatars.
This initiative to become the reality has to be approved by the Federal Assembly (the parliament of the Russian Federation). It has to pass a new federal law on this issue and then this law has to be signed by the President.
As for me I think that reality of Tatar language, as the second official language of the Russian Federation is questionable.

Note: Now only Russian language is the official language of Russia. But subjects of the Russian Federation can have their own additional official languages. For instance Tatar language is one of the official languages of the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan).

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Some readers can think that it is a linguistic question or something of this sort and it’s not connected with the law and legal matter. But the practice shows that these issues are very connected.

A family from Kaliningrad cannot receive a special payment from the government fund which it pays when a second child in a family has been born. The reason for this denial is the difference between surnames in mother and children’s documents. The mother’s documents have the rare letter which I’ve mentioned in the surname. But children’s documents have instead of it letter “e”.

Government bodies recommend family to change their documents, but it’s very difficult in Russia because of long ranges and bureaucracy procedures…

Source: rian.ru

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I’m a lawyer in Russia and I’ve just started to prepare for the FCE exam.

The Runnig of this blog is one of the ways to improve my English.

Other goal to run this blog is to share Russian legal news with the world.  And maybe to discuss them.

Let’s start!

P.S. If you correct my grammatical or linguistic mistakes and give me advice in my English, I will be very thankful!

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