On 5 December 2014 the Department of History and Letters of Budapest University hosted the Prize Award ceremony held by the Fund “For the Russian Language and Culture” and the Budapest University Russian Studies Centre. This year the Award went to Oxana Yakimenko, literary historian, translator of fiction and special literature, interpreter, lecturer at the St. Petersburg State University and trainer of the St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation. The Fund Board of Trustees awarded her the prize for “twenty years of service to the cause of study and popularization of contemporary Hungarian culture and literature (including XX cent.), teaching the Hungarian language at a Russian university and strengthening Hungarian-Russian ties and academic cooperation. Among the awardees of previous years were Lajos Vass, director of Budapest Opera (2007), Péter Gothár, a film director and screenwriter (2009), Géza Morscányi, a playwrite and translator (2010), the Russian Cultural Center in Budapest (2013).
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