The Russian classics turned out to be more interesting than the documents that were signed on Friday, September 28, at the CIS summit in Dushanbe. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the meeting with the novel "Eugene Onegin" in the hands of. "At first, Putin put the book slightly to his left, but, having put several signatures, he took a copy of the poetic novel by Alexander Pushkin and flipped through several pages. They brought a new batch of documents, the president put his signature and opened the book again, "the RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the scene.. Only when, at the end of the official event, Moldovan President Igor Dodon got hooked on to the head of the Kremlin, was Pushkin temporarily forgotten.

But rising from the table, Putin again took the book and held it in his left hand even during a short conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan attended the meeting of the Council of Heads of CIS Member States.. Earlier, when he met with the winners of school competitions in the Sirius center in September, Putin said that Alexander Kuprin, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Gogol are among his favorite writers..