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Pushkin's Anniversary Takes On Political Edge
June 06, 2006
A statue in Moscow to Aleksandr Putin (ITAR-TASS)
Groups of scholars and readers are gathering for commemorative and literary events in Rome and Tashkent, as well as in Russian cities.
In eastern Ukraine, the date has taken on a political tone, as the Russian-speaking Donetsk and Kharkiv regions chose to honor the Russian poet by declaring his birthday "Russian Language Day."
(Interfax, ITAR-TASS)