The United Nations logo at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Archival photoUN, June 6 The Russian Permanent Mission will launch a project in social networks on Russian Language Day (June 6), in which it will tell about the Russian-language resources of the UN, Fyodor Strzhizhovsky, press secretary of the Russian mission, told reporters. «On June 6 The Day of the Russian Language, one of the six official languages of the UN, is celebrated all over the world. This holiday has become a traditional occasion to emphasize the role of the Russian language in the modern world,» he said. the spokesman said. According to him, the goal of the project, which is supported by official UN resources, is “to show that the global agenda, for all its complexity, can be very interesting.”
Russian Language Day»We decided to talk not only about the most visited sites, such as the main UN portal (un.org), News Service in Russian (new s.un.org/ru/) or the Moscow Information Center (unic.ru), but also about very important UN departments and programs (WHO, FAO, IAEA, etc.), whose resources also contain a lot of interesting and useful information» , — Strzhizhovsky pointed out. According to him, this year at the UN headquarters, the association of Russian-speaking UN employees «Russian Book Club» traditionally organizes a number of events, «during which meetings will be held with famous masters of the pen and bloggers.» Heads of diplomatic missions and the Deputy Secretary General (UN — ed.) will speak, and students of the UN language courses will read poetry in Russian,» Strzhizhovsky said. />Russian Language Day will be celebrated in Moscow libraries
