14 ARMENIAN SCHOOL STUDENTS FLEW TO RUSSIA FOR REST AT ONE OF
COMFORTABLE CHILD HEALTH RESORT IN MOSCOW DOWNTOWN
ARKA News Agency
Aug 2 2005
YEREVAN, August 2. /ARKA/. 14 Armenian school students flew to
Russia for rest at one of comfortable child health resort in Moscow
downtown. According to Russian Embassy in Armenia, the children
will stay there 24 days with children of the same age from Baltic
countries and the CIS member countries. Another 40 Armenian school
students will leave for St. Petersburg.
The Embassy’s press release says 30 graduates of Armenian schools
will fly to Russia by the beginning of the academic year for obtaining
free higher education in 28 specialties in 12 cities, including Moscow
and Saint Petersburg.
The majority of them are going to come back to their homeland and
work here.
It should be noted that Armenian schoolchildren have take their
all-expenses-paid trips to Russia throughout several years. The
expenses are borne by Russian Government as part of a special program
focused on strengthening friendship between Armenian and Russian
people. M.V. -0—