Chief editor of “Gramota.ru” Pakhomov: the project of the Ministry of Education updates spelling norms 
Editor-in-chief of the portal “Gramota.ru” Institute of the Russian language named after V.V. Vinogradov Vladimir Pakhomov appreciated the project of the Ministry of Education to update the rules of the Russian language. The initiative will not become a global reform, the expert suggested in an interview with Gazeta.Ru.
According to Pakhomov, the project of the Ministry of Education updates the spelling norms that are relevant for everyone who writes in Russian. They will cover new words and types of words that have emerged in the language recently. The philologist emphasized that in 1956, when the current rules were adopted, many words were not yet available.
“Well, for example, how to write words with the first part of“ media ”? Or words with the first part “mini”, “business” and so on? Now such words are relevant for modern written speech. It will be possible to say that the words with the first part of “media” are written together, according to the rules of Russian spelling. For [the rules] of 1956, we, of course, cannot say that, “explained the editor-in-chief of Gramota.ru
Pakhomov added that the project is under discussion. It will be finalized taking into account the comments of the spelling commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the philologist, punctuation is not yet discussed within the initiative.
“I emphasize that we are not talking about any new spellings and spelling reforms, no one will eliminate the existing exceptions. Nobody will suggest writing the word “parachute” with the letter “y”, “the specialist noted.
The expert also said that linguists continue to work on a complete academic description of the rules of Russian spelling and punctuation, which is supposed to be created in electronic form. “This is not a distant affair, but the future,” he concluded.
Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Education had developed a draft of new rules for spelling and punctuation of the Russian language. They are planned to be updated for the first time since 1956. The department explained that over the past decades, words, speech patterns, constructions and spelling norms have appeared in the language, which are still not regulated.