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Vyacheslav Nikonov, the chairman of the executive council of "Russian World", 1st deputy of the Chairman of Duma Committee on International Affairs
The fund "Russian World" was founded on June 21, 2007.
The main tasks of the fund are
support of teaching the Russian language,
the Russian culture in the whole world.
The priority directions are:
establishing of Russian centers,
cabinets of "Russian World",
providing grant programs,
conducting educational programs,
the international social activity,
and our information programs.
Russian centers are resource centers
which support teaching the Russian language
in major universities of the world,
in major libraries.
Today we have 89 Russian centers in 41 country of the world.
The latest center was opened
in one of the oldest universities of Europe,
Coimbra University.
By the end of the year the fund plans
to open five more centers.
The grant programs of the fund are connected
with international festivals, text-books, research,
scientific works, support of Russian schools,
and Russian-speaking media.
The fund has implemented
more than 940 grant projects all over the world.
Their implementation allows a huge amount
of what is now referred to as "events".
About 10 events in the "Russian World"
are daily held in various countries.
The programs of the fund cover
more than 100 countries.
These projects will be continued.
We consider new applications.
It enables us to establish
a huge net structure of our big Russian world.
Lyudmila Verbitskaya, the chairwoman of the guardian council of "Russian World", the president of St.-Petersburg State University
I wish only to draw attention to the fact that
the tasks set before us president five years ago
are spread and development of the Russian language in the world
and, of course, the problem of preservation
of the Russian language in the country.
Today the conditions of the Russian language
are better in many countries than in Russia.
Therefore, our fund deals with this issue.
Vyacheslav spoke about our work
on funding a number of projects.
That is why "Russian World" sponsors
publication of dictionaries, textbooks, methodological books -
for the situation with the Russian language changes in the country.
In general, we need to understand the importance
of the problem of preservation of the Russian language,
our beautiful language.
The problems of preservation of the Russian language
are problems of the national security of our motherland.
"Russian World" encourages learning Russian
in the countries where it has never been taught before.
In Sri Lanka and Indonesia
there was no Russian language at all,
but due to "Russian World" they began to learn it,
and I am sure the number of people
who want to speak Russian
will increase day after day.
There is a series of organizations
which have to solve one and the same problem:
preserve the Russian language in Russia,
promote Russian in the world.
We have to do our best
for a strict coordination of the system.
There are, for instance, Russian World, Rossotrudnichestvo,
the Russian Society of Teachers of the Russian Language and Literature
which unites teachers from 85 countries
and quite strong teachers' unions.
A lot depends on efforts of each of the organizations.
A lot also depends on the leading universities of our country.
St.-Petersburg State University prepared a series of books "Let's speak correctly"
which appeared to be a bestseller
and "The Complex Normative Dictionary of the Russian Language"
which will help us to settle these tasks.
I believe in the bright future of our fund,
I hope we will continue our work
and, most importantly, coordinate our actions,
because together we can do much more.
Arusyak Nersesyan, the head of the Russian center of Yerevan State University
Our center was founded on February 7th, 2008.
Indeed, as Lyudmila said,
for five years of active development,
we have managed to accumulate a lot of experience.
Conduction of Days of Russian Word,
the Russian language contests,
methodological trainings, round tables,
visual aid room meetings, literature nights,
and guest arrangements in various towns of Armenia
are a good tradition of the Russian center.
Annually the Russian center of YSU is attended
by more than 10 thousand people.
Our main audience is students, pupils, and preschool children.
We have separate events for each age group.
School teachers, university tutors,
and parents of the youngest visitors
state that participation in events by the Russian center
promotes motivation to learning the language
and cultivates love of the Russian culture, literature, the Russian word.
According to school children,
the Russian center turns common lessons into festivals.
We are constantly expanding the range of activities undertaken by us
and coming up with new formats of meetings.
YSU students conduct open lessons
on literature for senior school.
We arrange literature lessons
on works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, poets of the Silver Age.
This year we organized an event of a new format -
a video bridge between pupils of the Yerevan school No29
and pupils of the Moscow school No221
within the festival "A Little Ambassador of a Big Country."
We conduct readers' conferences
where students and school children of Armenia take part.
The task of a participant is to present his or her favorite book
in a limited period of time
and catch an interest of the audience.
After that a vote is held,
and we find out what book could be interested for the audience of listeners,
that is, students will necessarily read it.
Every year we organize summer courses of the Russian language
for our youngest members.
In five years the Russian center of YSU was attended
by 54 thousand people.
Every year the number of participants in our events is growing.
Svetlana Sova, the head of the Russian center of Taras Shevchenko, Kiev National University
The Russian center is working for three years,
though its grand opening was held 2.5 years ago.
This was carried out as a result of the cooperation
between the fund "Russian World" and the university.
As it was established on the ground of Kiev University -
the leading university of Ukraine -
our target audience is students, tutors, professors,
scientific employees, workers of the university and libraries.
Moreover, everybody who wants to learn language can join us.
Initially they didn't understand us
as the Russian language feels well in Ukraine.
But after presentations of our resources,
they realized that it was a good idea.
As rooms given to us by the university are rather small,
there are situations
when we have no space for all desired people.
The documental fund of the Russian center
which has a modern base for learning and teaching the Russian language
is a fundament for tutors and students
of not only our, but also other universities.
We are working with school teachers.
There are documents in our documental fund
which are unique for whole Ukraine.
Data bases are interesting for students.
We have an access to internet,
thus, the center is always full of people.
We also conducted round tables and exhibitions.
We held six exhibitions
devoted to the year of history
using documents from the documental fund of our center.