International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
The article analyzes the relationship between the Republic of Ecuador and the Russian Federation in the humanitarian and cultural sphere. The main attention is paid to the educational sphere. The article tracks a process of establishing partnerships between representatives of the higher education system of the Federation Russia and Ecuador. Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) is the vanguard of international education in Russia, and has the important role in the training of competitive specialists from Latin America and the Caribbean, in particular, from Ecuador.