Two senior Russian academics from Vladivostok will visit Charles Sturt University (CSU) at Bathurst on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 November. Mr Errol Chopping, Courses Manager at the CSU School of Computing and Mathematics at Bathurst, said the visit by Professor Valeriya Gribova, Professor of Computer Science at the Far East Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor Evgeni Nurminskiy, Professor of Mathematics at the Far East National University, follows visits in January and September this year by himself and CSU’s Dr David Tien, the first-ever visits by Australians to the Academy in Vladivostok. “This landmark visit by Professor Gribova and Professor Nurminskiy is the second part of our outreach initiative into Russia, and is designed to cement a sound working relationship between Charles Sturt University and Russia,” Mr Chopping said. “During our visits to Vladivostok we met the Austrade ambassador, the Australian Ambassador to Russia and the embassy’s First Secretary, and also scheduled meetings with the Russian Minister for Tourism and Trade in Moscow. Subsequently, we were able to invite the two Russian academics to visit Australia, and we have worked on sharing and collaborating on research, holding English-speaking summer schools in Russia, two-way student and staff exchanges, and joint computer science conferences.”