News of International Cooperation

Remote simultaneous interpreting training with UN interpreters
From March 14 to March 18, 2022, the students of the Training Programme for Candidates for the Competitive Language Examinations had a  simultaneous interpreting training under the guidance of interpreters of the Russian section of the UN Interpretation Service in Vienna.

Linguist from Finland at MSLU
On February 18, Lari Kotilainen from the University of Helsinki, a linguist and lecturer of the Finnish language, gave an offline lecture at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of our University.

The meeting of the Vietnamese Club
The meeting of the Vietnamese Club was held in the office of the Russian-Vietnamese Friendship Society on the eve of Defender of the Motherland Day. Our university is a collective member of the Society. The meeting was attended not only by Russian and Vietnamese students of our university, but also Vietnamese students from other Moscow universities: Institute of Asia and African Countries at MSU, HSE and Military University.

MSLU at the Forum of Rectors of Russia and Cuba
Moscow State Linguistic University took part in the 13th International Congress of Higher Education "University and Innovations for Sustainable and Inclusive Development", which was held in Havana (Cuba) from February 7 to 11.

2022 Winter School of Russian Language and Culture: first session is over
From January 10 to 23, MSLU hosted the first session of the Winter School of Russian Language and Culture 2022 online.

II Forum of Rectors of Russia and Great Britain
On January 26, Moscow hosted the Second Forum of Rectors of Russian and British Universities.

Testing of the students of the Training Programme for Canditates for the Competitive Language Examinations
On January 21, the students of the programme, who have been studying since September 2021, sat the intermediate exams in simultaneous interpretationn from the first foreign language (English).

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Australia visits MSLU
On April 18, 2022, our university welcomed Greim Meehan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Australia to the Russian Federation; Keith Pitcher, Second Secretary of the Australian Embassy, and Oleg Son, Political and Economic Section of Australian Embassy.

MSLU took part in SUN General Assembly
On September 29-30, 2021, MSLU rector and students took part in the General Assembly of SUN (The Silk-Road Universities Network), the partner of our university.

MSLU and Valle University (Colombia) signed a framework agreement
On June 30, 2021, Juan Pablo Duque, lecturer of the Department of Spanish Language and Translation at MSLU Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, visited Valle University in Cali (Colombia) and met with Rector Edgar Varela, Vice-Rector for Research Hector Cadavid, Director of Department of International Relations Adriana Guzman and Dean of Faculty of Humanities Dr. Dario Henao.

Representatives of New Bulgarian University and the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria visit MSLU
From June 21 to June 28, 2021, a representative of the New Bulgarian University (Republic of Bulgaria), coordinator of cooperation Tatyana Fedya paid a visit to MSLU.

Visit of the Okan-Istanbul University delegation to MSLU
From June 21 to June 27, 2021, a delegation of Okan-Istanbul University (Republic of Turkey) headed by the head of the international department Derya Yurdakul and the coordinator of cooperation Semikha Erylmaz, was on a visit to MSLU.

Panel discussion “Japanese-Russian collaboration on training interpreters / translators and language teaching”
The panel discussion “Japanese-Russian collaboration on training interpreters / translators and language teaching” took place on May 20, 2021, and was co-hosted by SPbU, Hokkaido University (HaRP Platform), Association of Japanese and Russian Universities for the Japanese and Russian language teachers and students at universities, private translation/interpreting agencies, language schools, and specialists at public agencies etc. and those, whose activities are related to language teaching and translation / interpreting, and their external partners.

UN Simultaneous Interpreter’s Master Classes at MSLU
From June 7 to 11, the students of the Programme for Preparing for Language Competitive Exams as well as the students of the Induction Programme boosted their simultaneous interpretation skills at online master classes held by Nikolay Telnov.

Day of the Russian Language: Online Meeting with Russian Section of the Interpretation Service of the UN Secretariat in New York
On June 7, the staff of the Russian Section of the Interpretation Service of the UN Secretariat in New York held an interactive meeting with students and professors of MSLU as well as students of the  Programme for preparing interpreters and translators for international organizations and the UN competitive language exams and participants of the 1st Model UN Translation MSLU.

Level test for students of theTraining of Interpreters for International Organizations programme
At the end of January, 9 students of the programme sat exams in simultaneous interpreting and written translation summing up 6 months of training.

MSLU students took 8 out of 10 prizes in the competition within the framework of the Model UN
Far East State University is hosting the Model UN in December. 8. MSLU students took part in the pre-Model UN competition of essays and motivation letters. The participants had to write an essay based on the agenda of the UN committee in which they will take part. For example, Victoria Tuchina wrote an essay on “The World Bank. Infrastructure. Solomon Islands Rural Development Project ".

MSLU postgraduate's victory in the international competition
Pei Li Ming from China, a postgraduate student of the Department of Russian Language and Theory of Literature of MSLU was the second at the International Youth Competition of creative and scientific works in memory of Ivan Bunin in the nomination "Research works dedicated to the life and work of Bunin".

Meeting with Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic
On October 20, MSLU received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hellenic Republic to the Russian Federation Ekaterini Nassika and councellor for culture and education of the Embassy Dimitris Yalamas. The guests were welcomed by rector of MSLU Irina Kraeva, head of the Department for International Cooperation and Internationalization Irina Shokina, dean of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Ekaterina Pokholkova and professor of the Greek language Alexey Grishin.

Meeting with the author of «Career planning: resume/CV, cover letter, interview»
On September 30, MSLU had the honour to receive Peter Mitchell, Head of the Department of Translation and Language Communication of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of Tomsk State University, full member of the Institute of Linguists (Great Britain), practicing translator and consultant on intercultural communication.