On December 27, 2021, the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Russia, Danar A. Mustafa, visited the IOM RAS and awarded a certificate (in Kurdish) of honorary membership in the Kurdish Academy of Sciences to Zare Aliyevna Yusupova, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, IOM RAS Academic Councillor (in accordance with the Order No.394 effective August 16, 2021 issued by the Kurdish Academy of Sciences of the Kurdistan Region, Iraq).