During a working trip to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko visited the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Centre (Tropical Centre) and the Hanoi branch of the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute.
During a trip to Vietnam, Dmitry Chernyshenko visited the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Centre (Tropical Centre). Anna Popova (left), Head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor)
During a trip to Vietnam, Dmitry Chernyshenko visited the Hanoi branch of the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute
Dmitry Chernyshenko visited the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Centre. The ceremony to present Russian language certificates
Dmitry Chernyshenko in the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Centre
During a trip to Vietnam, Dmitry Chernyshenko visited the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Centre (Tropical Centre). Anna Popova (left), Head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor)
Taking part in the visit to the Tropical Centre were Head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) Anna Popova, Deputy Minister of National Defence of Vietnam Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien, Director of the Russian section of the Tropical Centre Andrei Kuznetsov, Director of the Vietnamese section of the Tropical Centre Dr Dang Hong Trien, and representatives from Russian research institutions of epidemiology.
The Tropical Centre is a vital element of Russia-Vietnam strategic partnership in science, technology and military technical cooperation. Established 36 years ago, the centre has grown into a multidiscipline international research organisation that has no analogues in the world. Several dozen Russian specialists are working there on a permanent basis.
“The Tropical Centre is a vital element of research and technological cooperation between Russia and Vietnam. Our common goal is to preserve and strengthen its standing and to use its potential more actively, including in Southeast Asia. Our immediate plans include the signing of the Tropical Centre’s development strategy until 2035, in which we will set out its development goals and objectives for the near term in the interests of our countries. In particular, we intend to expand marine research conducted for the centre by the research vessel Professor Gagarinsky. Another pending task is to build up the centre’s personnel potential. The Russian section will continue to strengthen the centre’s personnel infrastructure (human capital) by attracting permanent staff,” Dmitry Chernyshenko pointed out.
He also added that updated fundamental and applied results had been received in three areas of the Tropical Centre’s activities: tropical ecology, tropical materials science, and tropical medicine. A new five-year programme of the Tropical Centre’s research and applied work will be drafted this year. Dmitry Chernyshenko noted that the Russian side also welcomed adding more applied works on ecology, medicine, and materials science to the programme. He stressed that the fundamental research must be at the global level, and expressed his confidence that the programme will significantly enhance the Tropical Centre with new highly qualified scientific personnel.
“For more than 10 years Rospotrebnadzor, with support from the Russian Government, has held events aimed at fulfilling Vietnam’s capacity to detect, prevent and respond to infections. Over this time, over 100 scientific articles were published, more than 50 units of the latest laboratory equipment supplied, a KamAZ mobile laboratory transferred, over 500 Vietnamese specialists trained, and more than 60 expeditions conducted. Thanks to this work, we can protect the people of Russia and Vietnam from epidemics of infectious diseases, and it will certainly continue,” Anna Popova noted.
The signing of a Russian-Vietnamese protocol to extend the programme for increasing the tropical resistance of weapons until 2030 was discussed at the meeting, as well as the training, at the Tropical Centre, of teachers of Russian for Vietnamese cadets and officers, and developing a technology transfer mechanism as part of the organisation’s activities.
Dmitry Chernyshenko also visited the Hanoi branch of the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, where he met with Russian teachers and teachers of Russian as a foreign language at Vietnamese universities and special schools.
“Over the last year, Russian-Vietnamese cooperation in higher education went through something like a reload. Following the Intergovernmental Commission meeting in April 2023, many issues were given a new development boost. Every year, about 3,000 Vietnamese students study at Russian universities, with 70 percent of them on the grants from the Russian Government. It is planned to use the site of the Hanoi branch of the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute for faster adaptation and studies of Russian within the consortium. The Hanoi Pushkin Institute and its transformation into an interstate educational organisation, the Pushkin Centre, is an important project for the Russian side to promote the Russian language in Southeast Asia,” the Deputy Prime Minister stressed.
An International Russian Language Olympiad for Vietnamese schoolchildren, in which 440 students from eight provinces of Vietnam took part, was held in October and November 2023 at the Hanoi Pushkin Institute at the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Education, in order to promote Russian education, language, and culture in Vietnam. The three winners were awarded a free trip to Russia to participate in the Pushkin Institute Summer School. The second Russian language Olympiad for Vietnamese schoolchildren is scheduled for 2024. It is planned to hold it regularly in the future.
During his visit, Dmitry Chernyshenko also presented certificates to students and cadets who passed the “Russian language of everyday communication: Advanced level (B1)” test.
