How in the world has increased the interest in the Russian language during a pandemic

the seminar was attended by about seventy experts from the two provinces. If Inner Mongolia, where Russian language is studied in many schools, seminars for professional development is quite common, the 30 teachers of Russian language from the mountainous Guizhou province such attention is not spoiled. With tears in the eyes of the tan man, a teacher from Liupanshui city, invented for himself the romantic name of bell, thanked the organizers of the seminar. “You brought us hope and mental strength. I sincerely thank you,” she said.

the First remote online professional development seminar that the Russian-Chinese center held 11-12 April in Shandong province, East China, received a very high rating from participants. That is why the leaders of the center and Professor of Beijing normal University Professor Liu Juan, Deputy Director of the Institute of Russian language and culture Moscow state University Valery Chastnykh decided to keep the structure of the seminar. In the first half of the day lectures were Chinese experts from Beijing normal University and the other half was given to the Russian experts from the Moscow state University.

Professor Liu Juan thanked all the participants for their active and creative friendly atmosphere that has become a hallmark of events organized by the center. She said that applications have already been received from three provinces – Heilongjiang, Jining and Liaoning. Qualification expected in the total of 180 teachers of the Russian language.

Forced retreat unexpectedly intensified creative life of the community of teachers of Russian as a foreign language. The ease of a virtual movement in space helps to organize almost constant communication, to attend the classes of colleagues, conduct numerous seminars and conferences. In social networks there are also new groups, bringing together specialists from different countries.

Professors of the Moscow University Red Julia and Valery Private together with a Spanish colleague, a Professor at Madrid’s Complutense University Svetlana Malyavina have established an informal international society of teachers of Russian as a foreign language (RFL) “Russian afternoon”. Their colleagues Natalia Dominguez of Switzerland and Mikhail Troitskiy from Germany organized a community “Open lessons RCTS” the members of which for two or three weeks were more than a thousand teachers from around the world. The team of teachers of the Institute of Russian language and culture MSU April 15, prepared and held international student scientific online conference, which was attended by more than 600 students from different countries of the world.

this creates a new, virtual education space, which is likely to exist after ��of konania quarantine.