A preliminary agreement on establishing the Centre for Studying Russian Language and Science was made at the working meeting of Vladimir Litvinenko and Ivanka Popović, rectors of St. Petersburg Mining University and the University of Belgrade. The Centre will be set up in one of the faculties of the Serbia-based university. In an interview for Forpost Press, Ivanka Popović, Rector of the University of Belgrade, told about the prospects the new Centre would open up for Serbian students, along with the functions it may serve.