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The article studies English borrowings in modern Russian. One of the main factors of borrowing is globalization which resulted in closer cooperation between countries at the turn of the centuries. One of the central problems of sociolinguistics is exponentially intensive interrelation of languages in the modern world. The predictions of perspectives and evaluation of its results for the Russian language have been changing during the last several decades.

The article explores the basic principles and stages in the development of the linguistic policy of the French language in terms of its spread, usage and quality.

The article examines the main principles and stages of the development of language policy with regard to the dissemination, use and status of modern French.