The message reads, in part:
"In this country and beyond, you are respected as a prominent and established philologist, gifted teacher and tutor. Your productive research and teaching activities and your significant contribution to the development of St Petersburg State University and Russia's tertiary education as a whole deserve the most sincere appreciation.
It is highly important that you give much attention to multifaceted and much needed public activities and work hard to strengthen the positions of the Russian language and culture in the world."