Promotion of MAX messenger and Solovyov’s speech

This Monday, Russian schools held another session of “Conversations About Important Things” — this time on the topic “The Russian Language in the Digital Age.” Students were told that the Russian language is an integral part of the world’s cultural heritage and serves as the “foundation of the spiritual and historical unity of dozens of unique cultures and peoples.”

The main focus was on “digital sovereignty.” Students were shown a video that included a promotional integration for the state-backed MAX messenger app. In the clip, Russian literary greats — Chekhov, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky — praise the app’s performance in a group chat.

“They say it even works in the theater parking lot,” wrote Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

The featured federal speaker for the lesson was propagandist and TV host Vladimir Solovyov, who answered students’ questions and said that “the great history of a great nation is always tied to its language.”

“Either a great language forms during the rise of a great nation, or God bestows His grace by giving us such a language — one that makes a people great just by speaking it,” said Solovyov.

He added that the world would be meaningless without Russia’s existence as a state:

“And if there is no Russia, then what’s the point of a world where Russia doesn’t exist?”