EUSP has worked with a group of friendly licensing experts and prepared an action plan to make our building and our licensing documents over the top ideal in terms of all conceivable requirements.European University at St. Petersburg intends to file the documents for a new license in the second half of February 2018.

A new issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies Sibirica "Mobility and Infrastructure" was published.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST PETERSBURGENERPO RESEARCH CENTERCLEAN ENERGY FORUM 2017 Clean energy for sustainable development Second international forum CLEAN ENERGY will take place on November 30, 2017 in the Hotel Indigo in St. Petersburg. On September 25, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a set of goals for sustainable development to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.

On November 22, 2017 the Coordinating Committee of the Russian Presidential grants contest in support of civil society development has announced the results of the second contest campaign of 2017.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the North-Western district upheld the decisions of the primary and appellate courts regarding the unilateral termination of the lease agreement for the Small Marble Palace by the Committee for Property Relations. Ultimately, the termination of the agreement has been considered legal.

The organizing committee of RBC Saint Petersburg Awards has announced that EUSP Rector Nikolai Vakhtin (and with him the entire University

Yulia Raskina, EUSP Department of Economics, has published her article "Convergence or Divergence? Life Expectancy Patterns in Post-communist Countries, 1959–2010" (co-authored with Christopher J. Gerry and Daria Tsyplakova) in the Social Indicators Research journal (impact factor 1.743).   Abstract

Place: New EUSP Office, Gagarinskaya St., 6/1, lit.A (the entrance from Shpalernaya St., 1), second floor, room 201, Conference-hall.  

EUSP Anthropology Department graduate Iuliia Andreeva defended her dissertation “Proekty preobrazovaniia mira v novom religioznom dvizhenii "Anastasiia": antropologicheskie aspekty religii N'iu-Eidzh v sovremennoi Rossii [Projects of the Transformation of the World in the New Religious Movement “Anastasia”: Anthropological Aspects of the New Age Religion in Modern Russia]” at the Dissertation Council of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Kunstkamera” on Septem

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 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.