St. Petersburg, 25 Jul. The general secretary of the Kalinka cultural center in Senegal, Madame Umi Sen, said that her favorite places in St. Petersburg are St. Isaac's Cathedral and Nevsky Prospekt.
«Thank God, this is not my first time in St. Petersburg. I would say that as a capital, as a city, it is completely different from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, or any other Russian city. We are in one of my favorite places — at Isaac, then on Nevsky, and with friends we love to walk in your parks, they are very beautiful,” shared Umi Sen.
The General Secretary of the cultural center «Kalinka» flew to St. Petersburg as part of the Senegalese delegation to the forum «Russia — Africa». According to the interlocutor of the agency, the topics of education and the prospects for business cooperation became a priority for presentation at the country's stand.
“For Russians, Senegal is the most famous in sports, because KAMAZ has repeatedly won our Paris-Dakar rally, then it’s Amsterdam-Dakar, then Europe-Dakar. our beaches, our Pink Lake, and tour operators organize special events where our wrestlers dance with masks and perform, because the Senegalese wrestling is very famous,» said Umi Sen.
The development of joint projects is one of the important tasks of the cultural center «Kalinka» in Senegal, which takes part in the forum «Russia — Africa». “Of course, we, as the Kalinka cultural center, are trying very hard to develop joint projects in order to build a big bridge between Russia and West Africa, because Senegal is the door to West Africa,” she said.
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