Today is the last Sunday of November and it's Mother's Day in Russia. The holiday started in 1998 to mark the role of the most important person
in everyone's life.
The light blue forget-me-not was the emblem of the "I Love You, Mom"
action that took place in Moscow today. These delicate flowers remind
us not to forget our mothers. Hundreds of volunteers at metro stations
were handing out cards to the people this morning. The cards depicted a
funny little bear handing a forget-me-not in his paw with an inscription “I
Love You, Mom".
An unusual competition was held in St Petersburg. More than 140 families
came to a sports centre in the Primorsky district to take part in baby craw-
ler championship for babies under 12 months. Parents could crawl
(ползти) next to their kidѕ tо hеlр thеm tо crawl fоrwаrd without touching
them. The organizer of the crawler race, head of the district family centre
Natalya Rusakova told us that it was fun:
"The babies trained at home. Some liked crawling to a music-playing mo-
bile phone, others preferred a tablet computer. The third group reacted
to toys. So the parents brought all those things with them to help their
children in the race. The task was to cover a distance of 10 metres within
2 minutes. All the kids got gifts - a winter sledge or a musical toy, and the
fastest racers brought home their first sports awards."
Mother's Day is celebrated on different days in different countries. In the
United States, Australia, India, Canada, China, Mexico, Nicaragua, the
United Arab Emirates, Ukraine and Japan it is the second Sunday of May.In Belarus,it is October 14. Сделайте текст более короткий (
