Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to family members and relatives of Alexander Solzhenitsyn upon the writer’s death

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to family members and relatives of Alexander Solzhenitsyn upon the writer’s death

The telegram says, in part:
«I sincerely share the grief of your family and I would like you to accept my words of deepest sympathy and support. The death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a grievous loss for the whole Russia. We are proud of the fact that Alexander Solzhenitsyn was our compatriot and contemporary. We will remember him as a strong, courageous man with huge internal dignity. His literary and public activities, his long, thorny life journey will remain for us an example of genuine selfless devotion, self-giving service to people, Motherland, ideals of freedom, justice and humanism».