This is my take on life. Survival’s the name of the game… but as Solzhenitsyn put it, “Survive at ALMOST any cost” (he was talkin’ from GULag experience, kids, that’s as serious as cancer)… there ARE things that are beyond the pale for all decent people (not just Christians). Screwing other people to the wall for the sake of filthy lucre is one of ‘em…
BMD
9 June 2012
RIA-Novosti
2012
Again, Mr Yolkin uses a play on words using concepts familiar to every Russian. He uses the word нерукотворный in the original Russian title. The “Not Made by Hands” (Спас Нерукотворный) is one of the more familiar Russian Orthodox icons of Christ, and everyone’s familiar with it (whether Orthodox or not). This implies that Pushkin’s importance to the Russian language is similar to the importance that Jesus Christ has for Christianity. I quite agree. Before Pushkin there was a formless void… afterwards, we had a vehicle fit for the subtlest expression (it’s no coincidence that the great Russian novels and poetry followed soon upon his pioneering efforts). This is one of Sergei’s best “wordplays”.
In 2011, President Medvedev signed a decree on the annual celebration of Russian Language Day. This date wasn’t chosen at random… it’s the birthday of the creator of Russian literary language , the celebrated poet Aleksandr Pushkin. His language usage became the classical standard of the Russian literary canon, which is part of the cultural and spiritual heritage of our common world civilisation.
6 June 2012
RIA-Novosti
6 June 2012
RIA-Novosti
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