Russian Ambassador attends award ceremony for winners of Republican  Student Olympiad in Russian language

ArmInfo. Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin participated in the award ceremony for the winners of the Republican Student Olympiad in the Russian language at the Bryusov State University in Yerevan, annually  organized by the Rossotrudnichestvo office in Armenia.

According to the press service of the Russian Embassy in Armenia, in  his welcoming address, the head of the Russian diplomatic mission  congratulated the winners and participants of the Olympiad,  emphasizing the high demand for the Russian language in the CIS and  internationally: "For Armenian youth, knowledge of Russian is a  significant competitive advantage. In Armenia, the Russian language  is valued and loved, and it is actively used as a tool for  interethnic and international communication." 

This year, over 70 students from 12 universities across the country  participated in the Olympiad, which was timed to coincide with the  110th anniversary of the publication of the anthology "Poetry of  Armenia from Ancient Times to the Present Day," edited by the  prominent  Russian poet and translator Valery Bryusov.