2024-02-20 16:50:09
by Foreign Editorial Staff
The Russian president, according to «Ria Novosti», said this in response to the question of an Italian student from a Moscow university, Irene Cecchini
“Italy has always been close to us, I remember how I was welcomed by you, I always felt at home.” Russian President Vladimir Putin said this during the fourth edition of a forum in Moscow, entitled “Strong ideas for new times”. The declaration, recovery also from the Russian news agency Ria Novosti, was born in response to the question of an Italian student from a university in Moscow, «MGIMO», the university for international relations under the aegis of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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In the same exchange, Putin praised Milan, recalling a previous trip, «a beautiful place, an industrialized region of Italy. It is truly an Italian province that works.” The student – who would be called Irene Cecchini – would have said that she had fallen in love with Russia, and she would have started a little scene that would have embarrassed her: «And that’s it? She hasn’t fallen in love with anyone else? Strange that a beautiful girl like her hasn’t fallen in love yet.”
Irene Cecchini, the Italian student who asked Putin the question
It is found on the university website an interview with the student, which would be in its fourth year. She says she is satisfied with her academic experience there and with having now learned Russian: “Starting from scratch, I can now speak this language fluently” thanks to the university courses. She says that starting from her diploma, perhaps an allusion to her classical high school diploma, she noticed some elements in common in Latin and Greek. From an initial reconstruction on her social media, she may have studied at the Liceo Classico Gioia in Piacenza, according to her bio on her Instagram. According to Ria Novosti, you said at the forum that you were originally from Milan, or Northern Italy.
«At the beginning, my expectations about Russia were based on the information I received from the media and the opinions of the people of my country of origin – he says in the same interview, dating back to June 2023 -. But it was precisely this one-way view of Russia that made me more interested in exploring and understanding this country better. Now, with personal experience, my perspective has changed. Contrary to stereotypes, Russians are welcoming and eager to share their culture and traditions with foreigners.” Of that “culture”, according to the English version published online, Cecchini appreciates above all “a strong sense of community”. Always on base to the Mgimo websitethe young woman would have been awarded, last September, among the best students of her department, that of Government and International Affairs.
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February 20, 2024 (modified February 20, 2024 | 9.12 pm)
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