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Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree 'On immortalising the memory of Alexander Solzhenitsyn'

August 6, 2008

The President instructed the Government to establish personal stipends bearing the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn for Russian university students starting from 2009.

A recommendation has been made to the Moscow City Government to name one of Moscow’s streets after the writer, and a recommendation has been made to the authorities in Stavropol and Rostov Regions to take measures to immortalise Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s name in the cities of Kislovodsk and Rostov-on-Don.

August 6, 2008