January 28, 2011
Awarded scholarships to the best students
In Ministry of the Diaspora today , 21 best Serbian student are presented with scholarship money from fund "Mihajlo Pupin" of the oldest national organization of Serbs in the Diaspora, the Serbian National Defense (SND/СНО) from the United States. Scholarships, worth $ 500, which are traditionally assigned to the eighth year in a row,to students symbolically are given on the feast of Saint Sava, the greatest Serbian educator by president of SND Slavko Panovic.
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