2007: Year of the Russian language

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared 2007 as the international year of the Russian language. Jerzy Haszczynski applauds the news: "To conquer the world with Pushkin or Dostoyevsky would be the nicest kind of Russian conquest... Russian culture is attractive and - more importantly - it is has the backing of both the state and its new billionaires. So there is funding to draw foreigners into beginner courses in Russian. And those at a more advanced level – such as Ukrainians, Georgians or Poles - don't tend to forget the language of Pushkin. Russia is rarely a role model. But in this case one can learn from Putin."

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