65 years of cultural exchange between Vietnam and Russia: Problems and Prospects

The author summarizes achievements of 65 years and prospects of Vietnam-Russian cultural cooperation in the fields of literature, cinema, performing arts, visual arts and other areas. The paper recovers decline of cultural cooperation after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the efforts that parties undertake aiming to restore its previous level. The need of new approaches and faithful governmental decisions in Vietnam, including funding terms, applicable to new envirment is discussed too. The Vietnamese government is recommended to overcome the tendency of politicizing cultural cooperation and exchanges, to enhance their creative potential and to use foreign cultural experience.

Vietnam, Russia, culture, cooperation, literature, film, fine art, Soviet era, objective and subjective causes