Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🗓 On June 6, Russia celebrates #RussianLanguageDay.
On this day in 1799, the greatest poet, prose writer, playwright, historian, critic, and founder of the modern Russian literary language, Alexander Pushkin, was born.
🇷🇺 On June 6, 2011, the President of the Russian Federation signed an Executive Order on holding Russian Language Day annually in order to “preserve, support and promote the Russian language as a national treasure of the peoples of the Russian Federation, a means of international communication and an integral part of the cultural and spiritual heritage of world civilisation.”
• Support and promotion of the Russian language abroad is one of the most important tools for expanding international cultural cooperation between Russia and other countries.
• Russian has the status of a state and official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries.
🇺🇳 Russian is the official or working language in a number of international organisations, including the UN and some of its specialised agencies, the SCO, OSCE, CIS, EAEU, ATS, CSTO, ISO, CES, GUAM, IFRC and ICRC.
❗️ The Russian language is one of the most popular languages in the world:
• 6️⃣th most spoken language in the world;
• 8️⃣th most widespread language;
• 2️⃣nd by the number of websites on the Internet.
In general, about 146 million citizens of the Russian Federation and 130 million people abroad speak Russian.
#RussianLanguage #Pushkin
On this day in 1799, the greatest poet, prose writer, playwright, historian, critic, and founder of the modern Russian literary language, Alexander Pushkin, was born.
🇷🇺 On June 6, 2011, the President of the Russian Federation signed an Executive Order on holding Russian Language Day annually in order to “preserve, support and promote the Russian language as a national treasure of the peoples of the Russian Federation, a means of international communication and an integral part of the cultural and spiritual heritage of world civilisation.”
• Support and promotion of the Russian language abroad is one of the most important tools for expanding international cultural cooperation between Russia and other countries.
• Russian has the status of a state and official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries.
🇺🇳 Russian is the official or working language in a number of international organisations, including the UN and some of its specialised agencies, the SCO, OSCE, CIS, EAEU, ATS, CSTO, ISO, CES, GUAM, IFRC and ICRC.
❗️ The Russian language is one of the most popular languages in the world:
• 6️⃣th most spoken language in the world;
• 8️⃣th most widespread language;
• 2️⃣nd by the number of websites on the Internet.
In general, about 146 million citizens of the Russian Federation and 130 million people abroad speak Russian.
#RussianLanguage #Pushkin