On the 26th and 27th ofSeptember 2019, the European Languages Festival “Lingua Fest 2019” was held inthe classrooms of the University of Economics in Bratislava. This Festival isheld at the initiative of the Council of Europe annually and was held for thenineteenth time.
From 9th to 14th of September 2019, the VIII International Student Festival “Friends, our union is wonderful!” was held in Bulgaria at the "Balkanika-Rositsa" international sports center, located on the Black Sea near the resort town of Kiten.
On the 11th and 12th of September 2019, a number of events took place in Bratislava, dedicated to the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Fascism, which is celebrated annually from 1962 on the second Sunday of September, as it was in this month that the Second World War began and ended.
The international children's film camp, which was held from July 14 to 23, 2019 for the fourth time in the picturesque Slovak town of Soporna (Šoporňa), completed its work.
On the 7th of June 2019, an open lesson on Russian language and culture devoted to the Independence Day of Russia was held in the Russian Center of the European Foundation of Slavic Literature and Culture in Bratislava.
Since 2010, at the initiative of the United Nations, the International Day of the Russian Language is widely celebrated around the world on June 6. On this day exactly 220 years ago, the great Russian poet and prose writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was born.
