Overview
- State Duma chair Vyacheslav Volodin posted a video on Max urging Russians to remember their mothers every day and to be thankful they are alive.
- Federation Council speaker Valentina Matvienko said the holiday underscores a woman’s crucial role in her child’s life as well as in society’s development.
- Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin congratulated residents on Max, calling the day a chance to express love and gratitude to mothers.
- Mufti Ravil Gainutdin extended greetings, saying maternal prayer preserves lives including in the SVO, and honored mothers who lost children.
- Mother’s Day in Russia falls on the last Sunday of November and has held official status since 1998.