The survey: ''What lays behind Putin's loud statement on problems of teaching the Russian language?''

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Vladimir Putin has made statements that threaten to undermine arguable but quite stable Tatarstan ''language'' construction built over the last 20 years on Thursday at a meeting of the presidential council on interethnic relations in Yoshkar-Ola. The loudest fragment of the speech of the president of the Russian Federation: ''Forcing people to learn a language that is not native for them is also unacceptable as well as to reduce the level and time of teaching Russian. The heads of regions of the Russian Federation, pay attention to it.'' Realnoe Vremya asked its experts: Why has this rebuke been voiced right now, and what can be the result of implementation of the ''terrible'' linguistic order?