Iran Opens Cultural Center, Iranian Studies Foundation In Moscow

Moscow, June 16, IRNA – Iranian Cultural Center in Moscow and the branch of Iranian Studies Foundation in the Russian capital city opened at the presence of Head of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, Mohammad Baqer Khorramshad and Russia’s deputy culture minister. A ceremony marking the inauguration of Iranian Cultural Center was held at foreign literature library of Moscow on Friday. Tens of cultural and social personalities of Russia and Iran, including Persian literature and Iranian studies professors of Russian universities attended the ceremony. Concurrent with opening of Iranian Cultural Center in Moscow, the branch of Iranian Studies Foundation that had started its activities two years ago in Moscow was officially inaugurated at the building of Moscow’s Foreign Literature Library. A total of 7,000 specialized books on Islamic and Iranian culture and civilization are available in the building of Iranian Studies Foundation in Moscow and Russian researchers benefit from them./end