rector of the State Institute of Russian language named after Pushkin Margarita Rusetskaya announced that the ballots for amendments to Constitution, there is no error from the point of view of linguistics. According to her, the focus should be not on the style and sense.
the specialists of the Institute of Russian language named after V. V. Vinogradova ran drew attention to the fact that the wording “do You approve the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation?” violates the norm of language. The correct options would be “amendments to the Constitution” or “constitutional amendments”. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov has promised to deal with it.
Margarita Rusetskaya told RIA Novosti that in the sentence “do You approve the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation?” are all spelled correctly, but used a shortened design. Missed one word “insertion” before the preposition “in”.
According to him, in natural speech, people often use designs of such a plan, as it facilitates understanding and speeds up the exchange of information. Rusetskaya believes that this simplification is not critical from the point of view of linguistics. She suggested to focus on the meaning of the phrase, “If it is transparent, then nothing to worry about”.
