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A petition against the closure of Russian Language Department, written on behalf of students of the Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies of the University of Leipzig, gathered several hundred signatures on the Internet for the first day. Future translators are convinced that the closure of the department will damage the connection of Germany and Russia in the economic breakthrough era in relations between countries, Russkoe Pole reports.
The petition by student Olga Frolova was supported by several hundred people on the very first day after it was published on
Change.org website. Text of the petition is duplicated in Russian and German. The petition indicated that it was written on behalf of future interpreters and translators and is a reaction of students to information about the complete closure of Russian language Department, which the university management intends to undertake.
The author and the students who signed the appeal fear that the closure of the department will lead to absence of educational institutions for interpretation and translation of the German-Russian language pair in East Germany. This, in turn, will provoke the impossibility of training specialists for translation in such specific areas as science, politics and others.
In conditions of the economic breakthrough in relations between Russia and Germany, which are “strategically important for Europe”, the destruction of Russian-language translation direction will be a “step backward”, while cooperation between countries “requires new translators and interpreters”.
Russkiy Mir
