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🗓On 6 June, the birthday of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, the international Russian Language Day is celebrated all over the world. 🇷🇺To mark the 225th anniversary of Pushkin's birth, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the Russian Mission to the EU Kirill Logvinov laid flowers at his monument in Brussels. 📝We suggest you read a passage from Pushkin's poem "To the Slanderers of Russia" (1831), which sounds more relevant today than ever: What stirs ye? Is it that this nation On Moscow's flaming wall, blood-slaked and ruin-quenched, Spurned back the insolent dictation Of Him before whose nod ye blenched? Is it that into dust we shattered The Dagon that weighed down the earth so wearily? And our best blood so freely scattered To buy for Europe peace and liberty? Ye 're bold of tongue — but hard, would ye in deed but try it. Or is the hero, now reclined in laurelled quiet, Too weak to fix once more Izmail's red bayonet? Or hath the Russian Tsar ever in vain commanded? Or must we meet all Europe banded? Have we forgot to conquer yet? Or rather, shall they not, from Perm to Tauris' fountains, From the hot Colchian steppes to Finland's icy mountains, From the grey Kreml's half-shattered wall, To far Kathay, in dotage buried, — A steely rampart close and serried, Rise, Russia's warriors, one and all? Then send your numbers without number, Your maddened sons, your goaded slaves, In Russia's plains there 's room to slumber, And well they 'll know their brethren's graves! #RussianLanguageDay#Pushkin