The Government of the Russian Federation has been issued instructions to develop recommendations for higher education institutions regarding the establishment of structural units (specifically, faculties) dedicated to the Russian language and literature within federal state-financed and autonomous institutions of higher education. Furthermore, the Government, jointly with the Presidential Council for State Policy on Promoting the Russian Language and the Languages of the Peoples of Russia, is tasked with overseeing the execution of a project by the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This initiative involves publishing a book series, Library of Literary Masterpieces of the Peoples of Russia, comprising Russian translations of renowned classical works of the peoples of Russia.
The Government of the Russian Federation, jointly with the aforementioned Presidential Council and with the involvement of Moscow State Pedagogical University, has also been instructed to enhance the quality of training for primary school teachers. The measures aim to increase the number of instructional hours dedicated to studying the Russian language and literature, improve related teaching methodologies, and develop and implement a specialised academic module, Russian as the State Language, at higher education institutions. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education, together with St Petersburg State University and other relevant organisations, has been assigned the responsibility of creating the module.
Separate instructions issued to several ministries involve organising the annual opening ceremony for National Children’s Book Week and creating a dedicated section that features content on the study of Russian language and literature within the digital educational library.
The Ministry of Education has been instructed, in cooperation with the Presidential Council for State Policy on Promoting the Russian Language and the Languages of the Peoples of Russia, along with the executive authorities in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, to ensure the development of specialised Russian language textbooks for students in these territories.
Finally, the Presidential Executive Office, jointly with the Znaniye Russian Society and the Presidential Council for State Policy on Promoting the Russian Language and the Languages of the Peoples of Russia, with the involvement of the Russian State Children’s Library, the Russian Book Union, and the Movement of the First national movement of children and youth, has been tasked with organising a nationwide online audio-visual content competition this year, named Reading Together as a Family and aimed at promoting the practice of family reading.