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title: '''Let''s preserve our native culture and language'' Pushkin ''Constitution 2020'' billboard'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pushkin-constitution-2020-billboard-2020/
description: 'Roadside billboard in Yekaterinburg, 21 March 2020: a painted portrait of the poet Alexander Pushkin beside the words ''Let''s preserve our native culture…'
section: Collection
---

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[!['Let's preserve our native culture and language' Pushkin 'Constitution 2020' billboard](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pushkin-constitution-2020-billboard-2020.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pushkin-constitution-2020-billboard-2020.jpg)

# 'Let's preserve our native culture and language' Pushkin 'Constitution 2020' billboard

Roadside billboard in Yekaterinburg, 21 March 2020: a painted portrait of the poet Alexander Pushkin beside the words 'Let's preserve our native culture and language' and a 'Конституция 2020' tag. The tells are the borrowed prestige of Russia's national poet, pasted onto a constitutional vote, and a virtue phrase with no amendment named. No sponsor is stated on the board.

- **Date:** March 21, 2020
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Unnamed on the billboard ('Конституция 2020' social-advertising campaign for the 2020 constitutional amendments; outdoor operator Russ)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=russia)
- **Medium:** [Signs and banners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=sign-banner)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [Putin Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=putin-government)
- **Leader:** [Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=vladimir-putin)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [2020 Russian Constitutional Amendments](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=2020-russian-constitutional-amendments)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Regime:** [Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/putin-government/)
- **Leader:** [Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/putin-government/#vladimir-putin)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (photograph by IvanA)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%B7%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%83%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8E_%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%95%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5_21_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0_2020_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY-SA 4.0 (photograph by IvanA, via Commons) IvanA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
СОХРАНИМ
РОДНУЮ КУЛЬТУРУ
И ЯЗЫК

КОНСТИТУЦИЯ 2020

[Below the board, operator mark:] Russ
[Small print along the lower edge of the board:] [illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
LET'S PRESERVE
OUR NATIVE CULTURE
AND LANGUAGE

CONSTITUTION 2020

[Operator mark:] Russ
[Small print:] [illegible]
```

The tri-colour stripe next to 'Конституция 2020' is a logo graphic. The small print at the foot of the board is not legible at this resolution.

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