On June 6, Russia marks Russian Language Day – an international day of the Russian language established by the United Nations in 2010. Russia started celebrating this day in 2011, and also calls it Pushkin Day in honor of a great Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin, whose birthday was also June 6.
The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ invites everyone to take place in an online quiz timed to mark Russian Language Day: “Russian on the Internet: Spelled as You Hear It?”
The quiz will be held on June 6 from 11 am to 5 pm. Participants will be asked to answer 12 questions about the use of Russian on the internet. The quiz will have the form of a test. The Coordination Center’s signature prizes will be given to the first 10 participants to answer all the questions correctly.
The results of the quiz will be announced on June 9.
Find out more on the anniversary website, 15.кц.рф.
Russian is the state language of Russia, has official status in Belarus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and has become a recognized world language since the middle of the 20th century. With a total of 250 million speakers, it ranks eighth in the top ten world languages. According to w3techs.com, the Russian language is the seventh most used language on the internet and is among the most frequently translated languages in the world.
