Russian bureaucrats tested in grammar, spelling

Bureaucrats in Russia have been sent back to school to improve their spelling and grammar. Two thousand officials in Russia’s Volga River region of Ulyanovsk had to sit for a special test on spelling, punctuation and spoken Russian today (February 3) after the local governor grew tired of seeing documents full of mistakes. In an echo of the Soviet Union’s mass education drives of the 1920s and 1930s, Russia’s Parliament has declared 2007 the year of the Russian language and ordered an improvement in spelling standards. Read more about it.