Delegation of MSLU at the Congress "Language Policy of CIS Countries" in Minsk

Representatives of MSLU participated in the III International Congress "Language Policy of CIS Countries," organized by our university in collaboration with Minsk State Linguistic University. The event, held from November 27 to 29 in the Belarusian capital, was supported by Rossotrudnichestvo.

The plenary session was opened by the Rector of MSLU, Irina Kraeva. In her speech, she emphasized that the congress should contribute to the development of long-term and mutually beneficial cooperation between the universities, public organizations, and government bodies of the CIS countries.

Also, at the opening, welcoming words were spoken by Natalia Lapteva, the Rector of Minsk State Linguistic University; David Gyurjinyan, the Rector of Brusov State University (Yerevan); Andrei Grozov, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the statutory and other bodies of the CIS in Minsk; Galina Kazak, Advisor to the Department of Humanitarian Cooperation, Socio-Political, and Social Issues; Erlan Bayzhanov, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Belarus and the Permanent Representative to the statutory bodies of the CIS; Erbol Sultanbaev, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Republic of Belarus.

During the three days, the representatives of eight countries - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan – were exchanging experiences and discussing the language situation in the CIS member states. They evaluated the effectiveness of existing practices, determined optimal approaches to harmonizing the language situation in the conditions of a multilingual, multicultural, and multi-confessional community of states.

All the participants highlighted the importance and necessity of such a large-scale event, as well as the fact that the Russian language continues to be the language of interethnic communication and intercultural exchange in the CIS space.

As a result of the congress, a resolution was adopted, outlining the main provisions and directions for the further development of partnership relations between the cultural institutions, research and educational institutions in the CIS region. This includes addressing language interaction as the basis for an integration dialogue and expanding efforts to translate classical and contemporary Russian literature into the national languages of the CIS peoples and literature of the CIS countries into the Russian language.