POLITICS● LOWOct 5 · Oct 5, 2026, 6:12 PM
State media silently corrects poem in Putin quote after he misrecites lines Russians supposedly ‘absorb with their mother’s milk’
Meduza [en] · eastern europe
At a meeting with teachers on October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin misquoted a four-line poem by Fyodor Tyutchev, while stressing that every Russian knows the lines.
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