The Ministry of Education has developed a draft of new rules of the Russian language

RIA News" published draft resolution “On the approval of the rules of Russian spelling”. It defines a new, more complete set of rules corresponding to the current state of the Russian language.

The authors of the project note that the current rules were approved back in 1956, but since then discrepancies, inaccuracies and gaps have accumulated. For 65 years, there have been changes that undermine the spelling rules, as well as new words, types of words and constructions, the spelling of which is not regulated by the existing rules.

Among the innovations in the project are mentioned:

• new words: dealer, killer, offshore, default, realtor, karate, low-cost airline, car sharing and others;
• rules for writing new language units: mini (mini-tournament), midi (midi-dress), video (video equipment), audio (audio equipment), media (media holding);
• updated rules for writing the letter "e": laptop, master, plein air, racket, rap, Deng Xiaoping, Davis, Rambo, Salinger, Blair, Teffi, Sam, Maryland, Taipei;
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• updated rules and guidelines for using the letter "y";
• changes in outdated capitalization guidelines.

The set of new rules will be finalized by the end of 2021 with the assistance of the Spelling Commission at the Russian Academy of Sciences.