The article deals with a most interesting lingusitic situation in Russian society. The Russian Orthodox Church does not use the Russian standard language but the traditional sacral language, i.e. Church Slavonic. The linguistic question concerning language use in the Russian Orthodox Church gave way to a linguistic polemic at the beginning of the 20th century. Following the Revolution, with the marginalisation of the religious segment of life, the polemic lost its topicality. Nowadays, however,it is regaining it relevance.
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