By this Executive Order, the President has approved the Fundamentals of State Language Policy of the Russian Federation.
The Fundamentals constitute a strategic planning document aimed at preserving, developing, and supporting the Russian language, the state languages of the republics of the Russian Federation, and other languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation, as well as at promoting the Russian language worldwide. Additionally, the document defines the current state, objectives and basic principles of implementation, and tasks of the state language policy of the Russian Federation, along with the instruments and mechanisms for its execution.