The Acting Director of the Siberian Institute of Management, a branch of the RANEPA Nikolay Nikolaevich Taushkanov received a letter of gratitude from the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Rudiger von Fritsch. In his letter Mr. von Fritsch expresses his thankfulness for the warm welcome and the opportunity to give a lecture to the students and teachers of our institute and notes the excellent skills of students in the German language.