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More than 300 works have been sent to the international Pushkin competition, which is held by Rossiyskaya Gazeta and the Department of Foreign Economic and International Relations of Moscow. Most of the participants of the competition live in Uzbekistan, the total number of participants come from 23 countries.
The names of the winners will be announced on May, 24. The final ceremony will be timed to coincide with the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, it will be held online.
The main theme of the 23rd Pushkin competition is a line the "Courage" - a poem by Anna Akhmatova. It goes: "And we will save you, Russian speech, the great Russian word." The poem was written in 1942 in Tashkent, in evacuation, when the country was fighting fascism. Yadviga Yuferova, deputy editor of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, which hosts the competition, recalled that Russian is one of the working languages of the UN and other international organizations. 2023 has become the Year of the Russian Language in the CIS.
At the end of the competition, 50 teachers of the Russian language from different countries receive an invitation to come to Moscow. Visits to museums, theaters and other cultural institutions are organized for guests.
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