On 30 January, the SIM hosted a meeting with the teacher of the Department of Political Science and Technology Lyudmila Olegovna Zimina. At the meeting, Lyudmila Olegovna told about her experience of teaching Russian in secondary school No. 66 of Qingdao (PRC) and about the specifics of working with Chinese students.

Lyudmila Olegovna left to teach Russian in Qingdao on September 1, 2018 as part of a cooperation agreement with secondary school No. 66 and will stay there until the end of July 2019.