The Russian Center for Science and Culture (Russian House) in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, announced on Wednesday the launch of three projects promoting Russian language and culture.
The new projects that will enhance the study of the Russian language include:
An Information Center of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and the Russian-African Network University (RAFU) consortium to boost academic collaboration;
An online preparatory course by Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" for high school students;
A Russian Language Center by Nizhny Novgorod Dobrolyubov State Linguistic University at the Russian House.
The SPbPU-RAFU consortium Information Center will facilitate the exchange of experience, knowledge and technologies between Russia and Ethiopia, the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education said in a press release, adding that it established the consortium in 2021, and today its members are more than 80 Russian and 40 African organizations.
The opening of the center in Ethiopia will become a platform for the implementation of joint educational and scientific initiatives, the ministry added.
"It is important to us that young people who have acquired knowledge in Russia, who have become acquainted with our culture and science, make their countries richer and more successful. Russia differs from many other countries in the world in that we have never seen education in our state or our cultural influence as something that should make you or any other country poorer, steal the best brains and drag them to our country," Russian humanitarian agency Rossotrudnichestvo's head, Yevgeny Primakov, said at the launching ceremony at the Russian House in Addis Ababa.