Den' russkogo jazyka

[John Dunn]

You may be interested to know that Dmitrij Medvedev has declared 6 June (Pushkin's birthday) to be henceforth  День русского языка [Den' russkogo jazyka].  For more see:
http://gramota.ru/lenta/news/8_2646

For an interesting verbatim account of a meeting between the President and some of the Great and the Good of Russian language promotion (L. Verbickaja, V. Nikonov, M. Krongauz et al.) see:
http://news.kremlin.ru/news/11484
 
John Dunn.

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