1On 16 May 2019, Indian Ambassador, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus, Mrs. Sanghita Bahadur, paid a visit to VSMU.

During this visit, Ms. Ambassador got acquainted with arrangement and material and technical facilities of our university, the organization of educational process in the departments of human anatomy and clinical microbiology, visited the anatomical museum.

On May 11, students of the Faculty of Overseas Students Training visited the capital of the Republic of Belarus - the hero-city of Minsk. O.A. Khodos (curator of 48 and 51 groups of the first course of OSTF) and Z.S. Kuntsevich (curator of 47 groups of the first course of OSTF) notified the foreign students about this trip. Students from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Spain, India, Lebanon and Pakistan under the leadership of the OSTF deputy dean M.A. Senkovich and the head of the Department of Organic Chemistry Associate Professor O.A. Khodos visited the National Library of Belarus and the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. With undisguised interest, students listened to guides, viewed historical exhibits, collections of small arms, military ammunition and paraphernalia, photographs, and much more. Foreign students got acquainted with the historical past of the Republic of Belarus, with the peculiarities of librarianship and saw Minsk from a bird's-eye view.

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VSMU foreign students - members of the Student Scientific Circle of the Department of General, Physical and Colloid chemistry took an active part in the IV International scientific-practical conference of foreign students and undergraduates “Foreign students to Belarusian science”, hosted by Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine", and received worthy awards.

First-year students of the Faculty of Overseas Students Training (specialty “General Medicine”) Monira and Abdul Monayem made a report “Ayurvedic medicinal plants of Bangladesh”, and students Rahman Manfuzur and Sumaya spoke on “How the population of Bangladesh use medicinal plants” (supervisor: Z. S. Kuntsevich). They were awarded I-degree diplomas.

The administration of VSMU expresses its sincere condolences to all students of the Sri Lankan community in connection with horrific bomb attacks that occurred on April 21-22, 2019 in the territory of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.