The South Caucasian Railway and the office of Rossotrudnichestvo have signed an agreement to cooperate on education and humanitarian programs, News Armenia reports.
Vyacheslav Kovalenko, Russian Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Armenia, met freshmen of Russian higher education centers in Armenia studying the Russian language and delegates of the 2nd assembly of the Armenian Association of Russian-Language Teachers in Comprehensive Schools.
The document was signed by the head of the Rossotrudnichestvo office in Armenia, Victor Krivopuskov, and the Director General of the South Caucasian Railways, Victor Rebets.
According to the deal, engineers and technicians and other railway staff under concession of the Russian Railways Company will study the Russian language.
The ambassador was invited for Yuri Polyakov’s “Odnoklassniki” play, staged by C.S. Stanislavski Theatre under the supervision of Alexander Grigoryan, a notable artist of Russia.
Armenian Railways is under concessional management of South Caucasian Railways, according to a deal signed on February 13, 2008. The deal is for a period of 30 years and may be prolonged by 10 more years.
