Paris, June 6 /TASS /. The day of the Russian language was held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, completed the evening with the concert with the participation of the world famous jazz of Russian musician Igor Butman. This has been reported by the reporter.
The official holiday ceremony took place before a seminar for linguists and translators about “actual Russian discourse”. After that, the guests gathered at the spacious hall of the international organization's headquarters, where a continuous Russian representative under the Unesco Rinat Alyut Alyuttinov said before the concert with an appeal. He noted that the holiday occurred in the walls of the organization for the third consecutive year and held it as a joint initiative of Russian continuous representative offices, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
In Russian, more than 250 million Russian speakers in the world. He is the official language of the United Nations and UNESCO. Russian language is not only a means of communication, <...> It provides access to invaluable knowledge treasures, into the infinite cultural space of Russian civilization. Permanently also recalls that “further strengthening the positions of the Russian language in the world are still one of the unconditional priorities of the Russian Foreign A foreign policy”.
Alyauttinov emphasized that the Russian language occupies a special position in the former Soviet Union's space and contributes to the exchange of ideas among the peoples of CIS nations. He added that the work is being conducted to complete the procedures related to the establishment of an international organization in the Russian language, established under the initiative of President Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev. It is important that it is opened to join all states without exception, where they know and love the Russians, where they want to learn it, the Russian diplomat noted.
Behind the official part, where the culprits of all countries said, according to the initiative that the day of the Russian language was held at UNESCO, the famous jazz quartet stepped into the stage. “For us today, it is honored to play on this wonderful stage on the Russian language and the birthday of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin,” butman said before the concert. With the applause of the audience, they performed jazz works that caused fire and some songs were thought to be again in other genres. Especially the storms were ended by the Jazz version of Katyusha performed by them.
On June 6, the Russian language day was held around the world. He was established by the United Nations in 2010, and a year later, the president's decree was officially announced by a anniversary in Russia. The celebration is made on the birthday of Alexander Pushkin. For the first time, the anniversary of the Russian day at UNESCO's headquarters was held in 2023.