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From November 11 to 16 of this year, a meeting of the International Committee of Slavists was held in Sofia. For six days, some of the most prominent representatives of Slavic thought in the world held creative conversations, talked, and debated in order to identify and formulate the most current problems of Slavic studies. The direct goal of the meeting was to discuss the issues and topics for the upcoming Fifth International Congress, which will be held in Sofia in 1963. As hosts of the meeting and the upcoming congress, the Bulgarian Slavists were tasked with developing a draft of the problems and topics that would serve as a basis for the discussion. The draft was compiled and promptly sent to the national committees of Slavists in the individual countries, so that it could be discussed by all scholars dealing with the problems of Slavic studies. The meeting showed that the interest in the thematic program of the future congress is extremely high and that scholars from Slavic and non-Slavic countries who deal with one or another issue of Slavic studies are preparing to take an active part in the future congress in order to shed new light on the most important problems of Slavic studies.

The 5th International Congress of Slavists is a "Slavistic Olympiad" in the figurative definition of Dr. Karol Rosenbaum from the Institute of Slovak Literature. And for all those Czechoslovak Delegates who told the press about their impressions. For Prof. Fr. Burianek, Prof. F. Vodichka, for Acad. Jul. Dolansky and Acad. A. Mraz, the Congress was a monumental forum of international Slavic science; Monumental in the number of participants, in the hospitality of the hosts, with its numerous sections and subsections, and a wide range of topics and issues. By revealing the external monumentality of this "comprehensive" Congress - against a constant background of their fascination with our country and our people - our Czechoslovak friends at the same time point out the negative sides of this external monumentality, give recommendations for necessary qualitative changes for the work of the next 6th Slavic Congress, which will take place, as is known, in Prague and Bratislava. And from now on it is quite obvious that the Czechoslovak hosts will make sure that the thematic and problematic quantity does not atomize the scientific conversations and that the ground is generally created for a focused, creative discussion.