text: In 2006, Vladimir Putin signed the decree "On holding a year of the Russian language". Following that, 2007 had been declared the "Year of the Russian Language" in Russia and abroad, in order to promote the importance and beauty of Russian and limit the usage of foreign words. The rector of A. Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language Yuri Prokhorov admitted that it was impossible to stop the tendency of the widespread use of foreign terms. However, he believed that the bigger issue was that a large number of Russians could not use their own language correctly.
  Redundancy
  In the 21st century, words for basic items are often borrowed from English even when corresponding words already exist in Russian. The English word "hoodie" is copied by Russian clothing shops as "худи" despite there being a Russian word for the same item: "tolstovka" or "tolstovka s kapushonom". Another example is a piece of clothing to wear around one's neck: there is the word "manishka" in Russian, yet modern resellers of imported clothing use the English word "snood" instead, making it hard to find a "manishka" in a Russian online store.
  In some cases English borrowings are gaining popularity over older  loanwords from other Western European languages. For example, the English word "sandwich" competes with the German word "butterbrot" in Russian: an open sandwich would normally be a "бутерброд" in Russian, unless it is a small one, a canapé ("канапе").