total dictation of a member of the council under the president of russia on the russian language olga rybokovetslga good morning. well, in 2004 they started writing this dictation, then it seems that the numbers were from 15 to 150 people. and now, probably, thousands of hundreds of thousands of people are registered. yes, the dictation began as such a local event at novosibirsk state university, and then somehow the idea spread and spread all over the world. last year, in person, as the action was joined by 90,000 people and 700,000 wrote to online we watched our marathon, which has also taken root as a format this year. we hope there will be more geographical dictation. we don't dictate. and we ask questions that need to be answered here just. yes, probably everything is traditionally dictated by the text, the participants write it down by ear and then the philologists check for errors . marina stepnova. she wrote the text for us, she wrote it for this dictation. it echoes a little with her novel sad precisely in terms of post-stylistics, but in general we speak completely different words ther