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Prime Minister Putin congratulated the well-known Soviet artist F.S. Khitruk on his birthday

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The congratulatory message read in part:

Millions of animation fans in our country and far beyond its borders know you as the author of the best-loved, most popular cartoons, as a man of great creative potential and a rare, genuinely unique artistic gift. To a great extent it is thanks to you, your talent, and your massive capacity for work that the Russian school of animation is rightly regarded as one of the best in the world