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Moscow is eager to support Russian language projects abroad

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Moscow is eager to support Russian language projects abroad


24.09.2018


Moscow will continue to help organizations of compatriots living abroad, assures Sergey Cheryomin, representative of the Russian capital government. He stated this at a meeting with his compatriots in the Italian city of Bari on September 23. The event is a part of the Days of Moscow Culture in Italy, Interfax reports.

According to the Russian official, the Moscow authorities will continue to develop and strengthen the Russian language abroad.

Head of the External Economic and International Relations Department recalls that Moscow is an only city in Russia which has adopted its own law on the compatriots living abroad support.

The city authorities help compatriots to organize and conduct various cultural events, delivering teaching and methodological aids and equipment to Russian-language schools and Sunday schools. Moscow also helps veterans and allocates money for Russian soldiers monuments installed in other countries.

The representative of the Moscow government adds that recently there has been noticed a growing interest in Russian language learning and no political pressure on Russia is able to prevent this. Teachers of Russian as a foreign language also say this.

As Russkiy Mir reported, the Moscow Festival is held in three cities - Merano, Florence and Bari. The Winter Rose ballet will be shown in Bari. A performance of the New Ballet Moscow theater is based on the tale by Oscar Wilde called The Nightingale and the Rose. The Choir of the Sretensky Monastery will perform in the legendary Basilica of St. Nicholas.

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