Yampolskaya spoke about the peculiarities of the Russian language course as a state language.

The course "Russian as the state language", which is being developed for universities on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, does not affect the sphere of personal communication. Elena Yampolskaya, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, told about this on July 9, answering a question from Izvestia.

"The areas of application are prescribed in the legislation of the Russian Federation. And it will be very good for a physicist, for a chemist, for any specialist if he knows these areas and knows how to speak Russian as the official language," she said.

She explained that the new discipline will focus exclusively on the constitutional status of the Russian language as the state language and the legally established areas of its use. The program is designed to help students clearly understand the rules of using language in an official environment, while it does not contain any rules governing domestic or private communication between citizens.

According to Yampolskaya, specialists from St. Petersburg State University and Vernadsky Crimean Federal University are currently creating the training course. At the same time, the presidential adviser noted that the initiative to develop this program originally came from representatives of Crimea.

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The discipline will become mandatory for all universities in the country.

On June 2, Putin called for meaningful and purposeful work to support the Russian language, stressing that "nothing builds by itself." According to him, the priorities in the development of the Russian language should be determined by specialists who have devoted their entire lives to studying it. The state is obliged to support the proposed initiatives in this area, he stressed.