Institute Russian called "fire" and "protest" words of 2019

The most used in 2019 in Russian-speaking media "fire" and "protest" steel words, follows from results of research FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION "GOS. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE NAMED AFTER A. S. PUSHKINA", excerpts from which gives information agency "ITAR-TASS". The research supervisor of the Word of Year project at Institute Pushkin's name Osadchy Mikhail explained that the frequent use of the word "fire" was connected with a fire in Notre Dame de Paris and forest fires in Siberia. The word "protest" became more popular because of a number of events: protests in Moscow, Hong Kong, Paris. The word "fire" this year was used five times more often than...