The sixth special meeting of the Friends and Trustees of the EUSP Endowment Fund took place in the State Council Hall of the State Hermitage Museum. Rector, Vice-Rectors and professors of the University hosted the representatives of corporate donors and partners of the EUSP. Member of the Board of Trustees, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexei Kudrin, greeted those present; he was followed by the Chairman of the EUSP Board of Trustees, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, and Rector of EUSP, Oleg Kharkhordin. Professors Dmitry Travin and Vladimir Gelman gave a presentation of the Center for Modernization Studies (the M-Center), and Head of the Center for European Studies, Maria Nozhenko, spoke of the work of this research facility. After the presentations Minister Kudrin awarded the representatives of the companies, which supported the EUSP during last six months, with the donor recognition plates.
Alexei Kudrin's speech (pdf 13KB)
