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Yeltsin awards Pushkin medals to cultural figures
From: The Topeka Capital-Journal
Date: 19990606
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The Associated Press
MOSCOW -- President Boris Yeltsin, marking the 200th birthday of Russia's most revered poet, Saturday awarded the first Alexander Pushkin medals for achievements in culture and science.
"It's a medal of his essence, for the soul, for the heart," Yeltsin said at the Kremlin ceremony, grinning broadly. Turning pensive, he added, "Last night, as a kind of preparation, I decided with a clear head at two in the morning to read Pushkin." "It turned out not to be so simple. We were given (Pushkin) in the first grade, and everything was easy. But in fact, there is so much ...
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