On the occasion today of the 225th anniversary of the birthday of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued greetings, emphasizing that:
“Russian culture and science created their universally acclaimed masterpieces in the language which served as the mother tongue for Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Ivan Turgenev. The role the Russian language plays in terms of enabling people of various ethnic backgrounds to communicate internationally can hardly be underestimated….
