“We hope to have an international network of Vietnam studies, in which both domestic and international scholars join hands in attaining new successes in research”, said Assistant Professor Dr. Vladimir I. Antoshchenko, an expert in the Vietnamese history, from the University of Moscow, Russia.

The Russian scholar started studying Vietnamese in 1980 at the University of Lomonosov in Moscow. Then, he spent an internship period in Hanoi. And for 20 years now, he has frequently flown back and forth between Vietnam and Russia for his Vietnam studies.

After taking part in the 3rd International Conference on Vietnam Studies, held in Hanoi from December 5th to 7th, he felt very honoured and touched when he was warmly received by the State President Nguyen Minh Triet. During the conference, he also recognized that the Government of Vietnam shows its concerns to Vietnam studies.

Notably, the scholar’s wife is also a Vietnamologist in Slovakia. They met each other and in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, and fell in love at first sight.

Moreover, his late father-in-law was also a Vietnamologist too. He was a poetry translator who translated several of Uncle Ho’s works into Slovakian.

“Our family is an international one”, he proudly said.

Source: CAND

Translated by Mai Huong