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The Day of RSUH at the Embassy of India to Russia
February 17, 2020
D.P.Dhar Hall, Embassy of India, 6-8 ulitsa Vorontsovo Pole, Moscow, Russia.
RSUH students and teachers and Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre (JNCC), Embassy of India, Moscow jointly organized the students' art exhibition “Mahatma Gandhi and Satyagraha” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The idea to invite RSUH students to present the Art exhibition at the D.P. Dhar Hall belongs to HE Mr.D.Bala Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador of India to Russia.
The 13 posters of the RSUH students' Art exhibition made by Anna Andronova, Darya Bobyl, Olga Vasilyeva, Maria Gorbatyuk, Maria Karpova, Yulia Litvakova, Lucas Mendez Maria Cielo, Natalia Palachar, Elvira Suleimanova, Veronika Filimonova, Lina Shlain were placed in front of the DP Dhar Hall.
Welcoming speech was delivered by:
HE Mr.D.Bala Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador of India to Russia thanked students for creating posters and emphasized that annually RSUH students make their creative contribution to the promotion of Indian culture in Russia and thanked RSUH for close cooperation with the Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Center. A youth Mahatma Gandhi club was also announced by His Excellency. The club’s member will be Russian and Indian students who will promote the ideas of non-violence and peace. In addition, the Embassy plans to publish a Gandhi brochure with RSUH student posters’ photographs.
The “Russia-India” calendar, created by students of the ART-Design Center of RSUH under the guidance of Dr Tatyana Borisova was gifted to His Excellency.
Prof. Olga Pavlenko, the First Vice-Rector – Vice-Rector for science on behalf of prof. Alexander Bezborodov, Rector of RSUH expressed gratitude to Mr. Ambassador for the opportunity to organize an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
She confirmed that the celebration of the RSUH cultural event and exhibition plays a significant role in strengthening Russian-Indian relations. “The Indian Embassy’s initiatives regarding the work of the Indian Club and the creation of the Mahatma Gandhi Youth Club will continue to contribute to the spread of Indian culture, philosophy and ideas of humanism among Russian students,” prof. Olga Pavlenko confirmed.
“An important component of today's meeting is two words origin from Sanskrit – “satyagraha and ahimsa” that means – “non-violence ” . They belong to Mahatma Gandhi, the great humanist of the era. We know the history of the correspondence of two great thinkers - Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy. Now we are celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation and the 190th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s birth. These two leaders were simple people but their friendship has become a symbol of the relationship between India and Russia. Today’s student exhibition dedicated to the two giants of the philosophy of non-violence and the unity of their views demonstrate to us that knowledge, spirituality, humanism are the most important criteria of peace and friendship” – told prof. Vera Zabotkina, Vice-Rector for International Affairs.
The cultural program will be presented by students of the Ballroom Dance group of the Institute of the History and Archives studies. The guest enjoyed the beauty of a figured waltz, a Mazurka waltz, a Russian lyrical waltz, a Russian ballroom waltz and dances in the Russian folk style. Anna Kuznetsova, Andrey Ryabchenko, Irina Epova, Sergey Peshekhonov, Alexandra Kuznetsova and Alexander Glebezdin held a fascinating master class. They invited guests to the stage and taught them how to dance the Moscow quadrille.
Anna Gasparyan, 2nd year student of the Department of international relations played the violin. The students of the Faculty of Management performed an magical Indian dance named "Wedding".
The Hindi group students – Sofya Kiseleva, Maria Skorobogatova, Amina Mukhametkhanova, Ekaterina Moskalenko, Vikktro Veseliy, Alena Plotnikova and Alina Fasakhova sang the song "Moscow Nights" in four languages - Russian, English, Tatar and Hindi languages.
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