On the 16th of November 2017 in St. Petersburg was opened the VI International Cultural Forum. For six years, the forum has evolved from a small conference into a grand cultural event.
This year the forum was attended by 79 countries, including Slovakia. Japan and Kazakhstan at the same time had a special status of "guest country". There were registered 34 thousand participants on the forum in total.
In November 2017, Andrey Danko visited Moscow for the first time on an official visit as a chairman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. He had previously repeatedly expressed the need to restore normal relations between the European Union and Russia and opposed the anti-Russian sanctions.
On the 10th of November 2017 in Bratislava, the Third Scientific and Practical Conference of Rusists "Modern Russian Language as a Foreign Language in School: New Trends" was held.
The conference was organized by the Association of Rusists of Slovakia with the support of the Embassy of the Russian Federation.
On the 9th of November 2017, at the Russian Center in Bratislava of the European Foundation of Slavic Literature and Culture, a meeting was held with the representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, under Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Archimandrite Seraphim.
Archimandrite Seraphim is the author of icons and frescoes in the temples of Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the USA, Sweden, Great Britain, Ireland and Switzerland.
On the 15th of October 2017 in the Russian Center of the European Center of Slavic Literature and Culture in Bratislava the Russian language courses for children has begun.
In the first group were children of different ages from 3 to 14 years. The Russian Center invited a Russian-language teacher with a special pedagogical education received in Russia.
On the 12th of October 2017 in Bratislava in the Aircraft gallery was opened a surprisingly powerful sounding joint exhibition of two masters - the Russian artist Tatiana Vavrzhina and the Spanish sculptor Rosa Serra.
The exhibition was opened by Professor I.I. Bondarenko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the European Center of Fine Arts, President of the European Foundation of Slavic Literature and Culture, President of the European Academy of Security and Conflictology. All these organizations together with the Russian Center made an exhibition with the organizers.
