Lavrov complained that the words of remembrance written on the "Grieving Mother" monument in Samarkand were not written in Russian, paying attention to the accuracy of the sentence structure and punctuation marks.

During his visit to Uzbekistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out the absence of Russian inscriptions while laying flowers at the "Grieving Mother" monument in Samarkand. noted. 

He was surprised that the memorial words dedicated to the fallen soldiers were only translated into English. 

"I see there is an inscription in English, but I do not see one in Russian. Mother is the most sacred," - Lavrov said to the guide (quoted from TASS). 

The Press Service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a series of photos from the flower-laying ceremony.