OREANDA-NEWS. December 17, 2008. The Pushkin Medal has been awarded to Academician of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and the Arts Milan Gurcinov, Dean of the Skopje Cyril and Methodius University’s Philology Faculty Maxim Karanfilovski, Director of Moscow state cultural institution the P.N. Fomenko Studio Moscow Theatre Ivan Popovsky, and Academician of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and the Arts Gane Todorovski for their great contribution to strengthening Russian-Macedonian relations and spreading Russian language and culture.