From July 9–30, 2023, Sofia Chernikova, a student of Serbian Philology at STOU’s Faculty of History and Philology, attended a Serbian Language School in Montenegro for practice in language and country studies. Here is Ms. Chernikova’s report of her trip:
On July 14, 2023, His Eminence Metropolitan Andre (Gvazava) of Gori and Ateni defended his candidate of sciences thesis in theology at STOU’s Dissertation Council.
In November 2022, at a meeting between Patriarch Theophilos of the Holy City of Jerusalem and Elena Milsky, head of the St Mikhail Foundation, the Patriarch expressed a wish to employ Russian restorers to work on icons from the Patriarchate’s collection.