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Prize-winner of President’s Special Fund becomes laureate of Pushkin Contest of Professors

Yelena Kriklivets, a Russian language and literature professor of Vitebsk secondary school #39, a prize-winner of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for Support of the Talented Youth, has become a laureate of the 7th Pushkin Contest for Professors of the CIS and Baltic States.   

The Pushkin Contest has been held in Russia since 2000. This year – the Year of the Russian Language, the forum gathered 387 professors from various countries. In line with the terms of the contest, its participants should write the essay “Yazyk.ru Is it necessary the Russian language for computer generation?” The contest received the greatest number of essays from Belarus and Uzbekistan. The jury panel was composed of famous Russian scientists and journalists.  

Apart from Yelena Kriklivets, the Belarusian team included seven professors more: Svetlana Babicheva, Tatiana Beloborodaya, Oleg Volfson, Zoya Kobyak, Oksana Lychkovskaya, Irina Savkina, Margarita Skachkova.