Teachers of Russian gather in Istanbul for East-West language week

The Russian Embassy in Türkiye announced that the International East-West Russian Language Week, bringing together academics and teachers of Russian as a foreign language, is being held in Istanbul on Oct. 20-23.

Academics and teachers of Russian as a foreign language are meeting in Istanbul for the International East-West Russian Language Week, held from Oct. 20 to 23. The Russian Embassy in Türkiye announced the event in a message addressed to "dear friends" in Turkish.

The forum is jointly organized by Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia's agency for cultural and humanitarian cooperation abroad, and the V.N. Tatishchev Astrakhan State University. According to the embassy, it is one of the key discussion and training platforms for Russian-language specialists in Europe and the Middle East.

A session at the International East-West Russian Language Week in Istanbul

Goal: shared education networks

The language week aims to promote advanced educational technologies, encourage the exchange of experience that takes each country’s education trends into account, and develop partnerships between universities.