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Russia awarded 32 scholarships to Sri Lanka students to pursue their Masters in a Russian university.

These scholarships are for various fields in which these students have excelled, whereby 12 students for Medicine, 14 for Engineering, 4 for Commerce & Management and 2 for Service & Tourism were selected by the Higher Education Ministry for the scholarship programme.

The awards ceremony was held at the Russian Centre, Colombo, mid last week.

Higher Education Ministry Secretary Dr Sunil Nawarathne, Additional Secretary Piyasena Ranepura, Russian Center Director A.M. Nazarkin, Sri Lanka-Russia Friendship Society General Secretary and Presidential Advisor Dr Saman Weerasinghe participated at the function.

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