EUSP History Department graduate Evgenii Grishin defended his PhD dissertation at University of Kansas on July 14, 2017. The dissertation written under Professor Eve Levin’s academic supervision was titled “The Concepts of the “Schism” and “Schismatic” in the Church and State Discourses of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Russia”. We congratulate Evgenii on his successful defense and PhD in History degree.

EUSP Political Science and Sociology Department graduate and research fellow Margarita Zavadskaya defended her PhD dissertation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence on September 15, 2017. The dissertation was titled: "When Elections Subvert Authoritarianism Failed Cooptation and Russian Post-Electoral Protests of 2011-12". We congratulate Margarita on her successful defense and PhD in Political Science degree. Read more about Margarita Zavadskaya’s dissertation here.

EUSP History Department graduate Kseniia Barabanova defended her dissertation “Epidemiia kholery v Sankt-Peterburge v 1831 g.: vlast' i gorozhane v usloviiakh chrezvychainoi situatsii [Cholera Epidemic in Saint Petersburg in 1831: Power and Citizens in a State of Emergency]” at the Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences on October 3, 2017.

On September 18, 2017 EUSP Rector Nikolai Vakhtin met St. Petersburg's Vice-Governor and Chairman of the Committee for Property Relations Mikhail Mokretsov, who was commissioned to supervise the relocation of the University. Accommodation options were discussed during the meeting. The EUSP delegation was asked to prepare a document with characteristics and specifications of the potential options required to host the University (a new building or land for construction).

European University at St. Petersburg held an opening ceremony of a new “scientific” year on September 4, 2017, although, unlike other educational institutions, the university is temporarily unable to start the “academic” year. EUSP Rector Nikolai Vakhtin, Provost Veljko Vujačić and the first Rector Boris Firsov greeted the recent students, graduates, faculty and employees of the university and delivered speeches which were received with sadness at times, but also with enthusiasm by all those present.

July 27, 2018 EUSP was notified of an unscheduled on-site inspection which will last two days on July 31 and August 1, 2018 according to

Professor Ivan Kurilla has launched an online course on the history of Russian – American relations with the Arzamas project.

ENERPO Executive Director attends first public hearing of the High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance at the European Commission in Brussels Brussels, 18 July 2017

On August 2, 2017, the European University at St. Petersburg applied to the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor) for a new educational license. The appeal was made possible thanks to the timely fulfillment of the request to cancel the previous license by Rosobrnadzor (Order of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science on the termination of the educational activities, dated July 31, 2017, No. 1530-06).

Pay attention: the Loft "Sreda" is situated on Nevskiy perpective, 35 (the entrance is from Sadovaya street). You can consult with Olga Matckevich: +7 (952) 273-80-46 Independent not-for-profit educational organization of higher education “European University at St. Petersburg” 1917/2017 REVOLUTIONS, COMMUNIST LEGACIES AND SPECTRES OF THE FUTURE

It is with regret that we announce the death of Viktor Moiseevich Paneyakh, Doctor of Science in History, Professor of the European University at St. Petersburg, and Chief Researcher at Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor Paneyakh was the founding dean of the EUSP History Department. The first teaching program developed under his guidance laid the grounds of the department’s subsequent development. Our deepest condolences to Viktor Paneyakh’s family and to his loved ones, his colleagues, his students, and to those who knew him.

The 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal in Moscow has recognized the legality of issuing a recurrent order by Rosobrnadzor with respect to disputed violations contested by the University. The educational license of European University at St. Petersburg will be suspended after the official publication of the court decision. There seems to be no point in further appeals. European University will work on obtaining a new license without waiting for the court's decision on the final annulment of the existing license.

Interestingly, the sphere of law and jurisprudence has been rather skeptical of the digital revolution. The tools of informatics seem to be highly suited to dealing with issues that arise in the course of legal affairs: The legal system consists of and is confronted with large bodies of complex textual data that follow rational and objective principles. Informatics is a science that promises to help solve this problem as it has brought about new insights on how to effectively organize und use complex data.

Olga Novikova, our Senior Administrator and EUSP International Programs Admissions Officer, has received a PhD degree in Philosophy from St.Petersburg State University. Our best congratulations to a unique expert of moral aspects in the field of philosophy of cognitive science. We hope it is not the finish point of her research work.

Press release (pdf)June 23, 2017 European University at St. Petersburg announcesthe resignation of Rector Oleg Kharkhordin

Our alumnus from the Department of Political Science and Sociology, Kirill Kalinin, successfully defended his thesis "The Essays on Election Fraud in Authoritarian Regimes".

Water towns have a great potential due to the presence of water, this makes them also more fragile, demanding higher level of attention and sensibility for their protection. Venice, despite the high level of protection by the legislative framework, struggles for the conservation of its soul and image. The climate changes, the growing pressure of the tourism and sometimes the incapacity of controlling or managing the urban transformations risk to weaken its conservation. The lecture will provide an overview on the main issues for the conservation of the town.  

The talk will be given within the Data and Society under socialism and beyond Workshop. "How not to network a nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet" (MIT Press, 2016).

The talk will be given within the Data and Society under socialism and beyond Workshop.

June, 20 - 22, STS Center workshop