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Teachers-laureates of the Pushkin Competition awarded in Moscow

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Teachers-laureates of the Pushkin Competition awarded in Moscow


11.09.2017

Arkady Kolubalov/RNInternational Pushkin Contest award ceremony took place in Moscow, Russian Newspaper writes. 50 more people will be called Pushkin teachers, joining other 800 awardees.

This year contest organizers have invited participants to write an essay “Learning Russian. Possible? Fashionable? Profitable?” More than 250 works were submitted by participants from 50 countries, including Asia and Latin America. 30 teachers including those from USA and Australia have received International Pushkin Contest awards.

Russian language teachers bear very important mission: they unite people, has underlined the special representative of the Russian president for cultural cooperation, the Pushkin Contest Board of Trustees head Mikhail Shvidkoy.

Famous philologist, the academician of the Russian Academy of Science and author of the book Russian as a Foreign Language Vitaly Kostomarov has expressed the gratitude to all teachers who maintain Russian language status around the globe. He has reminded that Russian language stays among the 3-4 popular languages in the world.

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