The National Commission for State Language Standards has released a conclusion following a study by linguists on the spelling of the names “Russian Federation” with a lowercase letter in unofficial texts.
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Spelling the names “Russian Federation”, “Russia”, “Moscow”, “Muscovy”, “Moscow Kingdom”, “Russian Empire”, “State Duma of the Russian Federation”, etc. with a small letter may not qualify as a deviation from the norms of the Ukrainian language in unofficial texts, the commission explained.
Taking into account the war, the National Commission took into account the appeal on social networks by the Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk about writing the name of the aggressor country in small letters. The commission discussed this issue at a meeting on September 15 and, taking into account letters from the Institute of Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, as well as the Institute of Linguistics named after A. A. Potebnya of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, allowed to write “Russian Federation”, “Russia”, “Moscow”, “Muscovy” “, “Moscow kingdom”, “Russian empire”, “State Duma of the Russian Federation”, etc. with a small letter. Such writing will not be qualified as a deviation from the norms of the Ukrainian language.
Source: Racurs
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