its compulsary for all forign students to take a 1-half year pre-university course, after that you have to pass an exam and then if you are lucky you may get a place in the forign language faculity. the faculity is small and only gives about 10 places for forign students to study (you will have lots of chinese competition). try this site: www.cie.ru, they will at least answer you e-mails