Yerevan is hosting the second international conference of Russian language organized by the Department of Russian Language, Literature and Foreign Languages of the YSUL and support of Rossotrudnichestvo, News Armenia reports.
Gayana Markosyan, dean of the department, said that the conference will focus on comparing studies of Russian and Armenian languages and intercultural communication.
The conference will be attended by Russians, Belarusians, Kazakhs and Georgians, Dean of the Department for Theoretic and Applied Linguistics of the Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Professor Igor Sharonov, head of the Subdepartment for Slav Languages of the Minsk State Linguistic University Olga Poletayeva and a professor of the State Institute for the Russian Language of A.S. Pushkin and RSUH Natalya Bragina.
The conference will have discussions of the Russian language in CIS education, comparisons of language studies, language as an object of interdisciplinary studies, intercultural communication, Russian literature.
A plenary session will be dedicated to Professor Eduard Nuralov.
The first conference was held in 2008.
