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The Federal Law on the Russian People was drafted at the reception of the representative of the State Duma, Sultan Khamzaev.
In an interview with the RIA Novosti agency, he explained that there are quite a lot of nationalities in the Russian Federation, but Russians are one and each of the national groups is among them.
< p>“We use the phrase “multinational people of the Russian Federation”. I would say: the Russian people of the Russian Federation,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
The deputy also recalled that the phrase “Soviet people” was used in the USSR, and now the adoption of the wording “Russian people” is ripe.
“Russians today are Slavs, they are multi-ethnic people of Dagestan, Tatarstan, Chechnya, Bashkiria, Udmurt, Yakutsk,” said the deputy, noting that even government officials often confuse these terms.
According to him, the new law will not reduce the importance of national languages, their importance and survival, because each national language is “enscribed in its own republican constitution. At the same time, he noted that all peoples living in the Russian Federation are people from the Russian world.