(1) But add to this law a legislative debate in the Duma on banning foreign, mainly English, loanwords last month , as well as a crackdown on independent media , and you start to sense the presence of a much more pernicious effort to restrict both information and language.
(2) It is this mutable nature of language that makes it so poetic whether those changes come in the form of coinages, portmanteaus, bastardisations or, even loanwords, a fact that drives purists mad.