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8 апреля 2019 Spring Bananas in Russia
No, we haven't gone bananas. Belgorod State University's Botanical Garden has been growing banana plants since 2002, with the first edible 'winter banana' coming in 2007. Dr Natalia Zakharova explained this unlikely occurrence

3 апреля 2019 Princess Olga: the Founding Mother of Russian Orthodox Christianity
This year marks the 1050th anniversary of Princess Olga's Embassy to Byzantium, where she was the first of the Rus baptised into Christianity. Belgorod State University held a conference on the Embassy, and the life of this remarkable woman

2 апреля 2019 Major Dentistry Conference
Belgorod State University hosted the 2019 'Heart of Russia Dentists Forum', and while the experts were in town, students from across Russia had an opportunity to present their projects for assessment

29 марта 2019 Regional Development Conference
Dr Anna Kulik and Dr Yana Bondareva, from Belgorod State University's Institute of Economics and Management, were in Yalta for a major conference on ways to attract investment into Russia's Regions

28 марта 2019 New Techniques for Saving Endangered Lilacs
Belgorod State University's Botanical Garden is rapidly becoming a global centre for lilac research and cultivation. Tatyana Polyakova, Vice-President of the International Lilac Society, and Professor Olga Aladina were in town to help

28 марта 2019 International Linguistics Conference
Belgorod State University's Professor Nikolai Alefirenko was joined by Professor Harry Walter, from the University of Griefswald in Germany, to host the 4th annual Slavonic Cognitive-Linguistics conference

27 марта 2019 A Centre for Agricultural Innovation
Belgorod State University has teamed up with Belgorod State Technical University and Belgorod State Agricultural College, under the direction of Evgeny Savchenko, the Regional Governor, and the Government, to establish a centre of innovation in agriculture

26 марта 2019 Legally Speaking
Dr Sergei Rubanov, the Director of Belgorod State University's Centre for Mediation and Legal Methodology, part of the Law Institute, has given a talk at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, advising the government on legal procedures

25 марта 2019 Our High-Tech Metallurgy Can Reduce Carbon Emissions
Junior Research Fellow Roman Mishnev, from Belgorod State University's Mechanical Properties of Heat Resistant and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, earned an award from the Skolkovo Foundation for his work on the cutting edge of metallurgy

25 марта 2019 Live Streamed Lecture on Corruption
Professor Evgeny Tonkov, Director of Belgorod State University's Law Institute, live streamed a lecture entitled 'Corruption as an Attributive Sign of a Modern State' to an international audience of over 20,000