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Sotrudnik NNGU stala chlenom jyuri finalnogo etapa X NIS Olimpiadi po russkomu yaziku

The annual Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language is organised by NIS (Oil Industry of Serbia) as part of the Energy of Knowledge project under the auspices of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia. The finals of the Olympiad took place on May 28 at the J.J. Zmaj Gymnasium in Novi Sad, Serbia. Lobachevsky University is the only Russian partner university of the Olympiad.

Ekaterina Smirnova, Head of the UNN Department for International Student Affairs, acted as a member of the jury and conducted final oral interviews with the participants who qualified for the final stage of the Olympiad. During the awarding ceremony, she congratulated the participants and handed gifts from Lobachevsky University to the winners and runners-up of Olympiad 2023. Representatives of the Embassy of the Russian Federation and Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Serbia took part in the final ceremony.

In 2023, more than 1,500 students from Serbia, the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Montenegro took part in the Olympiad in Russian as a foreign language, with only 130 of them making it to the final round.