Sixth of June. Birthday of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. According to Russian philologists, scholars and historians, without Pushkin we would speak differently today. The language would be different, the books would be different. Pushkin is the founder of the modern Russian literary language. That is why the birthday of the great Russian poet, whose name is revered all over the world, was named International Russian Language Day by the United Nations and is celebrated in Russia as a public holiday.
Russian Language Day. In the center of Moscow, near the monument to Pushkin, there is an impromptu book fair. Scarlett, Dostoyevsky, Marina Tsvetaeva. As the translators say, it is impossible to translate Dostoyevsky’s “oblizyan” into any language in the world. Here is such an amazing definition that only a Russian can understand.
June 6, in almost all cities of Russia, also becomes a day of the book. There are book fairs in the squares. Almost everywhere, near the monuments of Alexander Sergeevich, there are spontaneous book markets, and everywhere, covering squares, houses and streets – Pushkin’s poems. And most often – in translations into other languages.
“Here in Red Square, at the Book Festival, there is an atmosphere of such a real intellectual feast – a feast of literature, reading and book publishing. Publishing houses from almost every corner and region of our great country are represented at the Book Festival, including books from Donbass, from Novorossia,” said SVR Director Sergey Naryshkin.
International Russian Language Day is celebrated today, without exaggeration, all over the planet. In the House of Moscow, in Sukhumi, for example, with a compulsory dress code. Evening dresses, fans, gloves. Classic suits, tailcoats and camisoles.
In the small town of Végy-Foncenet, near Geneva, there are also holidays. Moreover, the Russian language and culture brought together not only immigrants from the countries of the former USSR, but also native inhabitants of Switzerland and neighboring regions of France.
Well, the main secret – the basics of Russian, are laid by foreign students, who did not even know the Russian language closely, precisely with the poems of Pushkin.
“We are now in a group of linguists and, of course, the Asian public is very interested in humanitarian fields, philology and linguistics, history and international relations. But if you and I came to the engineering academy, and if we came to the engineering academy, we would see more representatives from Latin America and the African continent,” said Valeria Ivanova, associate professor from the Faculty of Philology of RUDN University.
Today, 11,000 foreign students from 162 countries study at the Peoples’ Friendship University. And to each direction – be it management, diplomacy, medicine or linguistics – its own teaching methods. But everything begins – with the general, with poetry, which, indeed, gives the “taste of the language”.
The teaching of the Russian language also returns to the CIS countries, in which over the past 30 years such a subject as “Russian” has practically sunk, but without which, as well as without Russian culture, it it turned out that those who come to Russia to study and work are extremely uncomfortable. Thus, today there are more and more Russian schools and institutes in the former Soviet republics.
“Large-scale and important cooperation for our citizens is developing in the cultural and humanitarian sense, mainly in the field of education. In view of the growing demand, branches of Russian universities have been opened in Tajikistan,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
A fundamentally different attitude towards the Russian language and Russian culture, which unites half the world, was discussed in Moscow on Russian Language Day, where the presentation of the most important and perhaps the most terrible book in our day , the Black Book, took place. Factual evidence from those who suffered abuse by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. The foreword was written by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
“This “Black Book” contains testimonies and terrible facts of torture, violence, murders committed and being committed by Ukronazis and servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The task is to ensure that the most as many people as possible in our country and abroad are familiar with them today. So that the pain and grief of the people who suffered from Ukrainian neo-Nazism will never be forgotten. For Ukrainian prisoners, getting acquainted with this book can to be the first step towards the realization of the abyss into which they have been dragged by the criminal actions of Kiev, ”wrote the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The book contains interviews with those who were eyewitnesses and witnesses to all that happened. And in almost all the interviews – about the fact that it is for the Russian language that the Ukrainian Nazis are ready to kill, realizing that in it lies the strength – Russian unites the Russians.
One of the many examples is the statement of the secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, a native of the Lugansk region, who has made a career of frenzied Russophobia and hatred of his own people.
As Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova said, threatening cleanups and declaring all Russian speakers “toxic waste” is very much in the spirit of the modern Ukrainian regime.
“This is how the Kyiv regime explains in relation to the living. It’s normal for them. Pushkin’s works are excluded from the school curriculum in Ukraine. Indeed, why. Educated people create many problems. It is easier to deal with uneducated people,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
And to bring in some of this new nationalist Ukrainianism. The current president of Nezalezhnaya had to be trained at a record pace for the Ridna Mova. At the start of his political career, he simply did not know the language in sufficient quantity.
“Zelenskyy’s native language is Russian. He learned Ukrainian when he became president. Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, D. McGregor, in an interview this year, said verbatim the following: “It’s funny that when he (Zelenskyy) became president, he couldn’t connect two words in Ukrainian. It cost our State Department a big headache. I had to drive him several months in a row for him to start talking. This quote reminded me of Heart of a Dog. Do you remember how Sharikov was trained there? About the same, it seems to me, they “trained” Zelenskyy,” Zakharova said.
Ukraine today is afraid of the Russian language, Russian thinking like the plague. For the past 30 years, the Ukrainian regime has thrived on the destruction of everything that, in one way or another, connected the country to Russia. And over the past nine years, these final threads – a common language, culture and religion – have been etched at an accelerating pace. To kill the Russian word means to destroy the ideological and mental connection with the brotherly people. That is why the schismatic OCU and the sectarians appeared, expelling Orthodoxy from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The Russian language was banned, and in order to monitor the implementation, they installed a “mobile ombudsman” who knew only wild Surzhik. And the great Russian poet Pushkin was declared an enemy of the Ukrainian people. In the past year and a half alone, 30 Pushkin monuments have been destroyed in Ukraine. And even on his birthday, the Dnipropetrovsk region celebrated this holiday in a special way – another monument to Alexander Sergeyevich was demolished there.
For more information on why, for some, the Russian language is the key to a great cultural heritage, and for others, a reason for murder, see the article by Alexei Samoletov for the Main with Olga Belova program .
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