ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCES TO HIS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART ON DEATH OF RUSSIAN DISTINGUISHED WRITER AL. SOLZHENITSIN

ARMENPRESS
Aug 4, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS: Armenian President Serzh Sargsian sent
a message of condolences to his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev on
the death of the Russian distinguished writer Alexander Solzhenitsin.

Presidential press service told Armenpress that in his message the
president particularly said, "Dear Dmitri Anatolii, With deep sorrow
the Armenian people learnt about the death of well-known writer and
humanitarian, man-century – Alexander Solzhenitsin. It is the loss
of the whole humanity.

The life of the people like him is not limited to the years given
to them. That moral, spiritual, creative beginning does not have an
end. The trace left by Solzhenitsin will be a long-time guide in the
moral and spiritual upbringing of generations.

I express my condolences to You, relatives of Solzhenitsin and all
Russian people."