🇷🇺 Today Russia marks the Day of the Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation for the first time. ✍️ The new national holiday was established by the Executive Order signed by President Vladimir Putin on 4 November 2025. It is designed to promote the preservation and development of the unique language diversity of our country. 🌏 The date was chosen for a reason: on 8 September we celebrate the birthday of Rasul Gamzatov, a great poet whose work serves as a symbol of intercultural dialogue. 🔠 There are about 100 written languages in the Russian Federation, aside from the Russian language. More than 60 of those are used to create works of fiction. 📚 Since 2016, the Russian Federation has been implementing the Programme for Supporting National Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation under the auspices of the Organising Committee for the Support of Literature, Book Publishing and Reading in the Russian Federation. It covers all the literary languages, as well as more than 10 written languages and 22 dialects and subdialects. 🔗 Detailed information about the Programme is available on the Portal of National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia: www.rus4all.ru. ☝️On today’s occasion, we are pleased to present the information brochure “National Literatures of the Peoples of Russia”.