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New Statue Honors Poet Pushkin

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Date: 19990604
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AP Online
06-04-1999
New Statue Honors Poet Pushkin

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A site on the campus of George Washington University was dedicated Friday at a groundbreaking ceremony for a statue to celebrate the 200th birthday of Alexander Pushkin, the poet, storyteller and democratic propagandist sometimes called ``the Russian Shakespeare.''

Former Rep. James W. Symington, D-Mo., chairman of the American-Russian Cultural Foundation, read a letter of support from President Clinton, and Washington Mayor Anthony Williams proclaimed Friday as ``Pushkin Day.''

``The statue, I am told, will be the only ...

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