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The president of Moldova Igor Dodon has promised to upgrade the status of the Russian language, the Russian Channel 5 reports. He reminded that the Russian language was the language of international communication. According to Dodon, Moldavian authorities have already expressed their willingness to discuss the possibility of upgrading its status.
The question of Russian would come forward when the search for a solution to the Transnistrian issue began, Dodon added. The authorities of the unrecognized republic assigned the state status to several languages, including Moldavian, Ukrainian and Russian. The President of Moldova noted that there were quite a few countries in the world where several languages simultaneously had the state status.
Russkiy Mir reported that the Constitutional Court of Moldova had previously allowed to revise the law, which granted Russian with the status of a language of international communication, after an appeal from Moldova’s Liberal Party deputies, who tried to pull Chisinau away from Moscow. The court stated that the document was "obsolete" – it was tantamount to the cancellation of the law.
Almost everyone in Moldova speaks Russian to some extent. According to public opinion polls, more than one million people speak Russian on a daily basis.
Dodon is convinced that it is urgent to keep Russian as a language of international communication.
Russkiy Mir
