South Ossetian State University has become a full member of the Eurasian Association of Universities.
The XIII Congress of the Eurasian Association of Universities, held today at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics, was attended by a delegation of the South Ossetian State University, headed by the rector Vadim Tedeev.
At the plenary session of the Congress South-Ossetian State University was admitted to the Association.
The Eurasian Association of Universities was established at the founding congress in 1989 as the Association of Universities of the USSR, on the initiative of the Moscow State University, supported by the twenty largest universities in the Soviet Union. In 1992, the Association was reorganized into the Eurasian Association of Universities.
The Eurasian Association of Universities is an authoritative international organization of universities. It includes national universities of the CIS countries, the leading regional universities and higher education institutions of the Eurasian space.
The Eurasian Association unites 128 universities of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
The highest governing body of the Eurasian Association is the Congress of the Association.
The Association carries out its activities through numerous conferences, forums, inter-institutional ties and contacts.
The President of the Eurasian Association of Universities is the Rector of the Moscow State University, vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Viktor Sadovnichy.
