Association of Foreign Students in Russia | University of Oil and Gas

THE FOREIGN STUDENTS

ASSOCIATION IN RUSSIA (FSA)

Headquarters:117917, Moscow, Leninsky Prospect 65,

Office: 2500(11),

Tel/fax (7-095)135-85-06.

The Foreign Students Association in Russia was formed by the initiative of the foreign students in Russia with support of the Ministry of Education in the Russian Federation. It operates with the registration number of JR-28.

FSA is a social, non- political, and non-commercial organization.This association came into light as a result of a unique aspiration of foreign students in Russia, to come together, as a formidable group to solve problems concerning them.(Problems concerning their live activities, studies, and perfection in raising their intellectual and cultural integrity. The other areas of concern are health services, judicial and social protection).

The basic aims of FSA are the following:

1. To assist in fomenting the already existing relation between foreign students and educational establishments in Russia.Again the association aspires to create cordial relationship between foreign students’ social organizations on one side and the administrations and other directive organs that deal with education on other side.

2. To assist the foreign students in their professional training, defense of their legal rights and interest in the Russian Federation.

3. The Association involves itself in building friendship amongst people, passing over the barriers of their different cultural orientation.

The Basic Directions of the Association

1. To make the Russian citizens and other people of the rest of the world society to be aware of the conditions of foreigners, their activities and other phenomena concerning foreigners in Russia through the mass media

2. To give material and judicial assistance to foreign students residing on the soil of Russia.

3. Realization of cultural and sporting activities.

4. The Association helps the Universities, Institutes and other Educational Establishment in Russia to recruit and train students from foreign countries

5. To assist in perfecting normative acts and documents determining the legal positions of foreign students in Russia

6. Establishment and development of contacts with foreign students’ organizations in other countries, and also with the international non-governmental organizations.

7. Establishment of contacts with the Russian Trained Graduates who are in their respective countries.

8. To assist in recruiting students from other parts of the world to study on scholarship and on contract basis respectively in the Russian Federation.

9. The Association conducts sociological pools for data processing.