The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) hosted the international festival "Russian Language and Family", which brought together students from Russian-national Slavic universities in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Students of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (KRSU) became winners of the essay competition "Family Traditions in My Country".
The festival was organized as part of the Year of the Family with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
The festival also included an exhibition of photographs of the winners of the international competition "Family Album", which brought together more than 150 participants from 20 countries. The festival ended with a large gala concert, at which creative groups from the International Cultural Center of RUDN University performed. The large-scale program included open lectures by leading scientists, scientific seminars and educational teleconferences with foreign universities, which allowed participants to expand the boundaries of cultural dialogue.