[Simplified?] Russian Language Day

UNO has recently assigned June 6 (the birthday of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin) to be the Day of Russian Language. And I really liked yesterday's Russian BBC post (in Russian) about it and about current language trends.

I think many people who love Russian language (and I'm sure translators are a part of them) recently have been concerned that the language is degrading. Objectively, the boost of unprofessional book publishing (which means both low-quality books and illiteral typesetting) in early 90th became one of the reasons why young people nowadays write and speak poorer Russian than was taught in ex-USSR; then the Internet arrived, and people learned a lot of americanisms and geeky slang (without learning English though), and developed lots of new "russified" words from English ones, and started writing "Olbanian" (garbled Russian, but while it's garbled for some people, others are growing up with it and it's quite natural to them) etc.

It's almost everyday I'm talking to my almost 6-year-old daughter about what she hears and says and what she should write - luckily she feels the difference, and being able to speak regular day-to-day Russian she is at the same time able to spell words correctly and build really complex descriptive sentences using quite a rich lexicon.

Anyway, the linguists BBC talked to are pretty sure that what we're seeing now is not really fast-changing language, and changes in Peter the Great times, for instance, were much more extensive. On the other hand, experts note that Russian is way too far from being popular in the computer world, and suppose that a new writer of a Leo Tolstoy's level would add to the language popularity. Don't know if one day we'll be looking for Russian-to-English literature translators for a "War and Peace"-like book, but at least I'm glad experts think my language is not under that serious mutation as I was afraid it is. However, I still worry as my 6-year-old seems to really speak the most "great and powerful" language among her friends, and I'm sort of afraid she's going to be a black sheep in the world of "simplified Russian"...