🎙 Russia's Deputy Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Mrs. Tatiana Dovgalenko comments on the rejection of the proposal to hold Day of the #RussianLanguage by the UNESCO.

💬 This move not to adopt the decision on a language is unprecedented for the UNESCO. It undermines the very basis of the organisation. Multilingualism is recognised as a fundamental value of the United Nations.

Our Western colleagues confess between themselves that they don't care about the UNESCO mandate. What they do care, is using the UNESCO platform to punish and harm Russia.

🗓 June 6 is #RussianLanguageDay in Russia.

✍️ #OnThisDay in 1799 the greatest poet, writer, playwright, historian, publicist, creator of the modern Russian literary language Alexander Pushkin was born.

🇷🇺 On June 6, 2011, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree on the annual celebration of Russian Language Day in order to “preserve, support and develop the Russian language as a national treasure of the peoples of the Russian Federation, a tool of international communication and an integral part of the cultural and spiritual heritage of world civilization”.

Russian is one of the most popular languages in the world. It is spoken by about 146 million citizens of the Russian Federation and 109 million abroad.

Watch the video to learn more interesting facts 👆

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