Russian-Turkish Research Center was closed in Moscow – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, December 1 – RIA Novosti. Turkish-Russian Scientific Center of the All-Russian Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow on behalf of Rudomino closed. This is stated in circulation of its staff on the site center.

“We have to inform you that our center was closed … Course Ottoman language cease to assist graduate students and undergraduates, we also can not. Of course, all of the planned round-table discussions, lectures and conferences canceled our library fund use is also no longer be able to “, – the statement says.

The staff added that the reasons for the closure are unknown to them and forwarded the comments to the administration of the library.

The center was engaged in the development of bilateral scientific exchange, support for the study of Turkey in Russia and Russia in Turkey, round tables, seminars, conferences , summer and winter schools, as well as the creation of the library collection in Turkish and Russian-speaking Research Foundation of Turkey.

At the end of November in Syria crashed Russian Su-24 bomber. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the plane was shot down by a rocket-type “air-air” to the Turkish F-16s over the Syrian territory in Syria and fell four kilometers from the border with Turkey. The Russian president called it a “stab in the back” by the accomplices of terrorists. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia may suspend the important joint projects with Turkey.