European Foundation for Slavic Script and Culture

On the 9^th of December in Bratislava was held Scientific-practical seminar on entrepreneurship, in which there was a presentation of several years work of Slovak scientist Stefan Kashshay under the title "Enterprise and Entrepreneurship". The Russian Centre of Science and Culture gathered scientists and entrepreneurs, public figures and university professors from Russia and Slovakia. The meeting was opened by Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Slovakia – A.L. Fedotov, who welcomed the participants and emphasised the importance of contacts between scientists and experts of the two countries, their dialogue and cooperation.

The Russian Center in Bratislava, the European Fund of Slavic Literature and Culture held a series of seminars on the Russian language and culture. Seminars were held for students of Russian language courses in order to expand vocabulary and familiarity with the best representatives of Russian culture. Two seminars were held in November and one in December.

From the 3d of October till the 5^th of December 2016 in the Russian center in Bratislava at the European Fund of Slavic Literature and Culture was held an internship for Master of Bialystok University Mikolayuk Lucia (Łucja Mikołajuk) from Poland.

Lucia Mikolayuk graduated in Bialystok University and received a master's degree in Philology of the Russian language. It was aimed at training in the Russian Centre in Bratislava according to the European Union's "Erasmus» (Erasmus) program.

On the 24^th of November 2016 in Bratislava was held a round table with participation of heads of institutions of culture and tourism from different regions of Russia and Slovakia on cooperation between the two countries.

The round table was held at the Russian Center of Science and Culture, with the support of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Slovakia. It was attended by representatives of public organizations, ministries, administrations of regions and areas, and also by private companies in the field of culture and tourism.

From the Slovak side were made presentations of Kosice, Trenčín, Trnava, Žilina, Nitra, Prešov, Bratislava and Banska Bistritsa regions. Representatives of Dudince, Brusno, Piestany, Trenchanki Teplicy and Luchky resorts talked about the possibilities of treatment and rest.

On the 28 of November 2016 in the Russian center of Bratislavaat the European Fund of Slavic Literature and Culture was held an exhibition ofbooks on the Russian language.

The exposition presents the latest additions to the RussianCenter of textbooks, workbooks and CDs for teaching Russian as a foreignlanguage. The possibility to get acquainted with content, to evaluate themodern methods of teaching and beautiful design of textbooks appreciated bothteachers and students of Russian language courses.

Presented educational literature was designed for any age - fortraining children and adults. In the Russian language courses in Russian Centerhas already begun training on new textbooks.

Visitors got acquainted with other educational literature whichwas widely represented in the library of the Russian Center.

On the 11^th of November 2016 in Bratislava was hosted the Second Scientific Conference of Russian Language scientists, writers and slavicists "The image of Russia in the word."

The conference was held at the area of the exhibition complex Incheba within the context of international exhibitions - International Book Fair "Library" and the exhibition of education and teaching methods "Pedagogy"....