On November 3, in Grodno (Korobchitsy), the best crossmen of our country performed for the prizes of the newspaper "Narodnaya Gazeta" at the Championships and Championships of the Republic of Belarus in track and field cross-country. It is especially joyful to note that Vladislav Tereshenok, a student of the Faculty of Physical Training of our university, who adequately represented the Gomel region, with a final result of 25:29, became the winner of the competition in running at a distance of 8 km (age division 1999-2001). 

From October 27 to 28, the II International Congress "Language Policy of the Commonwealth of Independent States" was held in Almaty. Organizers and partners of the Congress are Federal Agency "Rossotrudnichestvo", Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Kazakhstanian Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature, Russian house in Almaty.

Rector of the F. Skorina Gomel State University S.A. Khakhomov takes part in the Republican Board of Rectors with the participation of the Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus I.V. Karpenko. The event takes place on the basis of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. The main topics for discussion were the ways of interaction between universities and the society "Knowledge", as well as the issues of the entrance campaign.

Within the framework of the signed cooperation agreement between the Russian International Academy of Tourism (Russian Federation) and the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University (Republic of Belarus) the acquaintance took place – the first event in the videoconference mode, at which the potential of both higher educational institutions was presented, as well as a lecture in English on the academic discipline "Theory of intercultural communication" was held.

The European Youth Boxing Championship (U-18), held from October 14 to 24, ended in Budva (Montenegro).
 223 athletes and 101 athletes from 38 countries of the continent competed for the awards of the European Youth Boxing Championship (U-18).

80 reports by 242 authors from 18 countries will be presented at the 19th International Conference on Global Research and Education Inter-Academia 2021. The program of the event, which is attended by 56 scientific organizations, provides for three days of online work.

Moscow City Pedagogical University organized an online lecture by Professor Karen Hewitt of Oxford University within the framework of international cooperation with the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. The lecture was attended by teachers of the Faculty of Foreign Languages.
 Karen Hewitt is the chief coordinator of academic exchanges at the Institute of Slavic Studies at Oxford University, a lecturer in English literature at Kellogg College. She is the author of a large number of works on the development of English and Russian literature.

From October 20-to October 21 Faculty of Physical Culture of F. Skorina Gomel State University co-organized the IV All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation "Medical and physiological foundations of sports activity in the North" (Syktyvkar, Komi Republic).

From October 15 to 16, the Judo Championship of the Republic of Belarus was held on the basis of the sports complex "Staiki". 140 athletes from all regions of the country and the city of Minsk took part in the tournament.

It is impossible not to take into account the high role of linguistics in human life. Linguistics helps us to express our thoughts correctly both orally and in writing. Having high knowledge in the field of language, people show their literacy and can translate texts. Any person who aspires to climb the career ladder should have not only narrow-profile knowledge, but also a fairly strong knowledge of linguistics.