Russian education center opened in Novi Sad

The Beta news agency reported that the Center for Open Education in Russian and the Teaching of the Russian Language was opened in one of the city’s high schools. A city hall press release said that the opening ceremony was attended by Russian Ambassador Alexander Bocan Harchenko.

City Council education official Dina Vucinic told the ceremony that more than 650 Russian children are enrolled in schools in Novi Sad, adding that the city school system is investing effort to integrate those children.

The Russian education center is a joint project implemented by the Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj high school in Novi Sad and the L. N. Tolstoy University in Tula under the auspices of the Russian Federation Education Ministry.

Novi Sad is a mixed-ethnic city with a population composed of Serbs, ethnic Hungarians, Slovaks, Ukrainians, ethnic Germans, Jews and a number of other nations indigent to the northern Vojvodina province. It is known as one of the centers of resistance to the Milosevic regime in the 1990s and the current authorities despite the inflow of a large number of Serb refugees from the war-torn areas of the former Yugoslavia.