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Contest to award five students spots in Moscow journalism program

Posted on: 26/12/2008 Fellowships and Awards, Young Journalists Deadline: 20/02/2009 Country: Russia

Five secondary school students will be selected to enter Moscow State University (MSU) as journalism students through a contest organized by the newspaper Rossijskaya gazeta, Radio Rossii, and the journalism faculty of the Moscow State University (MSU). Those selected will be exempt from entrance exams. Deadline for entries: February 20, 2009.

Students that finish their studies in 2009 are invited to apply. Interested applicants must write a story on one of five proposed themes as well as a bio.

Selected participants will be invited to attend a live radio program at Radio Rossii station. Five winners will be announced in April 2009, when they will be accepted as journalism students of MSU.

For application information (in Russian) visit http://www.rg.ru/, http://www.radiorus.ru/ or http://www.journ.msu.ru/. Works (in Russian) are to be sent to mgu@radiorus.ru.

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