Moscow is in the process of attempting to introduce fines for verbally abusing minority people in their nation. They are proposing that people who use offensive words against national minorities out in public will receive a fine as large as two thousand dollars. The City Hall in Moscow is propositioning a law to punish the frequently used but untranslatable vocabulary that is used in a derogatory way referring to the people from the Caucasus or northern Russia. The people who support this new law say that because of the recent racial clashes in Moscow proves that the level of political and verbal correctness should be increased. It is said that if the people in a society scold and derogate their minor nationalities, then their society is not functioning properly and that new regulations should be enforced by authorities to control the situation. Although, linguistics say that this law will be difficult to enforce. They say that it is impossible to list all of the offensive words against every nationality in Russia and that there are certain words that have different meanings. This issue is difficult to control because although it is unfair to the minorities to be spoken to in a derogatory manner, it is also an issue of being able to speak freely.
http://rt.com/news/prime-time/minorities-offensive-words-fines/
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