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Students learning Russian at Schools, Colleges and Universities in the UK, including heritage learners and adult learners, are invited to participate in the 5th National Russian Essay Competition 2011. The competition is organised by the Russian Committee of the Association for Language Learning http://www.all-languages.org.uk/about/languages_at_all/russian_at_all and the Russian Teachers’ Group UK (RTG) www.russianteachersgroupuk.org
Please visit the official RUSSIAN ESSAY COMPETITION website
www.resources4russian.co.uk/essay
for more detailed information on this year’s
• topics
• prizes
• categories
• criteria for judgment
• deadlines
This is a high-profile event which will give your students a chance to win great prizes including cash (1st prize - £100) and see their essays published in Rusistika journal and on-line!
It is a great opportunity for your students to be creative with the language, compete nationwide with their peers in a field-wide event and raise the profile of Russian at your institution.
As last year there will be 3 people who will be directly involved in organising the competition:
Katya Solovyova (Feoktistova) (Oxford High School) info@russianessaycompetition.co.uk
Nadia Griffin (Cator Park School) entry@russianessaycompetition.co.uk
Natalia Tronenko (Russian Committee, ALL) coordinator@russianessaycompetition.co.uk
Please do not hesitate to contact us if there are any queries.
We would be very grateful if you could confirm your interest by 3 December 2010 to Katya Solovyova at info@russianessaycompetition.co.uk
The Competition has been organised with the support of:
Rossotrudnichestvo (Federal Agency for CIS, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Co-operation) www.rs-gov.ru
The Centre for Russian & East European Studies, University of Birmingham www.crees.bham.ac.uk
Ruslan Limited www.ruslan.co.uk
Grant and Cutler www.grantandcutler.com
The Scotland-Russia Forum www.scotlandrussiaforum.org
The Russian Society at the University of Sussex www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/russian
Russian language newspaper Angliya www.angliya.com
Resources4Russian www.resources4russian.co.uk
National Theatre www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Victoria and Albert Museum www.vam.ac.uk