The 15th International Congress of Slavists took place in Minsk, August 20-27, 2013, with more than six hundred participants from over thirty countries. The congress was opened by the Belarusian Minister of Culture Mr. Boris Svetlov, the Minister of Education Sergey Maskevich, and other persons of prominence from Belarusian political, cultural, religious and scholarly spheres. The chief organizer was the Belarusian State University Professor Alexander Lukashanets, one of the greatest experts for Belrusian.
The FSC Business Manager Alen Novalija gave a special thirty-minutes presentation about the structure, history and functioning of the Forum of Slavic Cultures. Numerous slavicists expressed a genuine interest in possible participation in FSC projects.
