June 6, the day Russia’s greatest poet was born – Alexander Pushkin – the entire world is celebrating the Russian Language Day.

The idea of celebrating this language as one the UN’s official languages was adopted on February 20, 2010, and on June 6, 2011 Russian President signed the respective decree.

This day was established to celebrate, maintain and promote the Russian language, which is not only the language shared by all the peoples of Russia yet also part of the international culture heritage.

In 2012, the Government of Russia imposed on NCFU an important mission – to employ degree programs to promote research an support to the Russian language and culture in the North Caucasus, as well as to become an expert platform for intercultural dialogue, inter-ethnic and inter-confessional communication, which was written as a special clause in NCFU’s strategic development program.

And this is a mission that NCFU has been carrying proudly since then – from teaching Russian as a foreign language to running international programs and offering respective training to teachers in other countries.

There is also a lot of cooperation with academic institutions of France, Tajikistan, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Turkey, while NCFU’s Linguistics students have regularly won, since 2014, the Russian Language Assistant title, after which they travel to France to teach in larger schools.

Based on RIA News Agency