Rules of Russian Orthography and Punctuation

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The Rules of Russian Orthography and Punctuation (Russian: "Правила русской орфографии и пунктуации", tr.: Pravila russkoy orfografii i punktuatsii) of 1956 is the current reference to regulate the modern Russian language.^[1] Approved by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Soviet Ministries of Education and Higher Education, it also became the first legally fixed obligatory set of rules..^[1] However it became a rare book and its principles are learned from school-books and manuals, based on RROP.

The Rules... are criticised for incompleteness of cases it embraces. Particularly the spelling of such words like maître (мэтр, metr), plain air (пленэр, plener) or racket (рэкет, reket) is given with "e" whereas in rules there are three fixed words where hard consonant is followed by "e": peer (пэр,per), mayor (мэр, mer) and sir (сэр, ser). In 1990 an attempt was made to fulfil the gaps in the RROP.^[1]