Dmitriy Tabachnik: Festival "The Great Russian Word" will strengthen good-neighborly and mutually beneficial relations between Ukraine and Russia

Understanding the importance of protecting, preserving and augmenting the richness of the native language is one of the most valuable unique advantages of the nation, an inherent and necessary condition of its identity and unity.

Festival "Great Russian Word" gathers not only the adherents of the Russian language, but people who cares about how the future will evolve in the cultural and humanitarian ties between Russia and Ukraine ", - says in greeting of Dmitriy Tabachnik.

He also expressed confidence that the International Festival "The Great Russian Word", exchange of practical experience and fresh ideas of solving pressing problems of development of Russian and Slavic cultures would strengthen good-neighborly and mutually beneficial relations between Ukraine and Russia.