International Digital Student Contest in Russian as a Foreign Language “Homo dicens” was organized by Moscow Pedagogical State University. The Contest was held from January to March, 1, 2020. The final tour was held online on March, 1, 2020. It had 144 international student-participants from all over the world.

Penza State University was represented by 6 participants studying at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language, Institute of International Cooperation, PSU.

All the three winning places went to our students. The third place was taken by Pan Minjna, a third-year student, the second place – by Aminata Sissoko, a fourth-year student. The winner of the Contest, who got the most points, is Deng Jian, a student from China.

The PSU students were trained for the Contest by Tatyana Kolyuzhko, a senior teacher at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language.