The 14th International Scientific and Practical Conference of the Moscow University of Geological Exploration, held in the Russian capital under the title "New Ideas in Earth Sciences", was attended by Prof.Dr. Ahmed Al-Menshawi, Vice President of Assiut University for Postgraduate Studies and Research, and Prof. Hassan Abdelhamid Soliman, Coordinator of relations of Assiut University with Russian universities . Prof.Dr. Ahmed Al-Menshawi explained that his participation in the proceedings of the Russian conference included a speech in Arabic, in which he emphasized the depth of the Egyptian-Russian relations in general and the distinguished relations between Assiut University and a number of Russian universities in particular, and the keenness of the university to expand the fields of scientific and cultural cooperation in the coming period, thus contributing to achieving cultural and humane rapprochement between the two peoples.