Russia notes Kazakhstan's policy in language issue with much appreciation - Russian Ambassador

12:54, 1 October 2009

ASTANA. October 1. KAZINFORM /Dimash Syzdykov/ Russia notes Kazakhstan's policy in the language issue with much appreciation. Russia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Kazakhstan Mikhail Bocharnikov has made it public at the opening of the II International Congress "The Russian language as a language of intercultural and business cooperation in the polilingvizm context of Eurasia".

The Congress is organized by the Kazakhstan Comprehensive Institute "Parasat" jointly with the Russian Science and Culture Centre, Kazakh Humanitarian Juridical University under the auspices of the Kazakh Ministry of Education and Science and Russian World Foundation. It is aimed at expansion of scientific, educational and cultural cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia, support of scientists and teachers, experience exchange on teaching methodology of the Russian language and literature.

According to M.ocharnikov, the Russian language as a factor of intercivilizational dialog, cultural development and mode of communication has big importance in multinational Kazakhstan.

As Chairman of the Committee for Languages of the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Information Yerbol Shaimerdenov noted, in spite of measures taken in Kazakhstan on giving a status of the state language to the Kazakh language, the Russian language using maintains the same volume, which it had before. "Significance of the Russian language is invaluable for our society", the representative of the Ministry emphasized.

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