A pilot project of training Kazakh diplomats at the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation has become one of the highlights of the year. Over the semester four Kazakh diplomats went through the “Language Mediation in International, Multilateral and Business Communication, Conference Interpreting and Translation” programme. On 21 January 2012 Vice-Rector for International Affairs Sergey Shilov and Deputy Director Angelique Antonova awarded the graduates Herzen University diplomas. The Consul General of Kazakhstan in St Petersburg Mr. Bekedzhan Zhumakhanov congratulated ‘the illustrious four” and bid them farewell good advice. The high guest also expressed hopes for the continuing cooperation and shared his vision of such cooperation.