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| At the 39th Edition of the Albanian Language Seminar. |
In the 40th edition of the International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, there will be no participants from Russia, said the director of the seminar, Shkumbin Munishi.
The 40th edition of the Language Seminar will be held from August 15 to 26.
Munishi, in an interview for Radio Free Europe (REL), which will be published in the following days, said that this year, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they have asked the institutions to receive instructions regarding whether they should be allowed to Russian citizens participate.
"Unfortunately, and I consider it as something that is not right at all, we still have not received an answer about this work and practically we have not answered the seminarians who traditionally came from Russia", he said.
Munishi added that he has seen that other European countries have also suspended the participation of Russian schoolchildren and students in various activities, but he said that the Kosovo authorities should deal with the permission or not of the participation of Russian citizens.
In the past, various professors from Russia have participated in the Language Seminar, which is held in Pristina.
One of the participants in the past seminars was the Russian Albanologist, Alexander Rusakov.
Rusakov, professor at the Department of the Albanian Language at the University of Saint Petersburg in Russia, in an interview given to REL in March of this year, said that Russia's war against Ukraine is a "criminal war".
"It is a criminal war on the part of my government, on the part of Russia. Yes, because it is an aggressive war against a smaller state that poses no danger to Russia," he said.
Last year, the Albanian language professor from Saint Petersburg, Aleksandar Novik, was also at the Language Seminar.
She had told REL that the seminar was very important as it supports knowledge about the Albanian world and culture.
The Albanian Language, Literature and Culture Seminar was founded in 1974 at the Faculty of Philology, at the University of Pristina. The seminar is organized for students and researchers of the Albanian language, literature, and culture, but also for Albanian studies in general.