The recipients of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art were announced on June 7, 2017.

EUSP Vice-Rector for Development Alexander Kurylev attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum – 2017 as a front row participant of the panel session titled “Creative Industries Driving Exports and Enhancing a Country’s Image Abroad”. Alexander introduced the results of the interdisciplinary research project “Hermitage for the City and its Citizens” conducted at EUSP on the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage museum. The project aimed to evaluate the influence of the Hermitage on economics in St.

EUSP Economics Department graduate Aleksei Minabutdinov has successfully defended his dissertation at Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences on May 15, 2017. The dissertation was titled: "Limiting curves for a class of self-similar adic systems". We congratulate Aleksei on being awarded the degree of Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics.

Cambridge University Library chose three titles from EUSP publications as Items of the Month (March, 2017) in its Slavonic Collections. It is, of course, very pleasant to hear words of appraisal from librarians with a 600-year-old history. "... books produced by EUSP's excellent publishing arm ..." "...For the librarian, their izdatel'stvo (publishing house) is a great boon ... important acquisitions ... particularly valuable ... "

On May 25, 2017, a general meeting to elect a new director took place at the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ILS RAS). Evgenii Golovko, EUSP Anthropology Department Professor, Doctor of Science in Philology, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, and Head of the Department of the National Languages of Russia at ILS RAS, was elected.

EUSP History Department alumna Elena Kochetkova (2013) successfully defended her PhD dissertation at University of Helsinki on May 27, 2017. The dissertation was titled “The Soviet Forestry Industry in the 1950s and 1960s : A Project of Modernization and Technology Transfer from Finland”. We congratulate Elena and EUSP History Department on their success!

Wider European Doctorate (WED) program graduate Oleksandr Polianichev defended his PhD dissertation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence on May 26, 2017. WED is a joint PhD program on history and political sciences organized in partnership between EUI and EUSP. The dissertation was titled “Rediscovering Zaporozhians: Memory, Loyalties, and Politics in Late Imperial Kuban, 1880–1914.”

The hearing on the EUSP lawsuit challenging the inspection act of Rosobrnadzor's recurrent order to eliminate violations took place today at the Moscow Arbitration Court. The court has adjourned the next session until July 25, 2017.

On May 31, 2017, the Valdai Discussion Club and RVC will hold an Expert Discussion, titled " Education-2035: What, Whom, and How to Teach?".

  Ликвификация и ликвидация музея у Сокурова и Шнурова

In the 1990s, EU governments begun a shift towards Activation Policies to deal with large numbers of people dependent on welfare benefits. The move took place within the framework of a major reform of the Welfare State, from welfare to work. Underscoring these developments there was a taken for granted ideology called neoliberalism. It consisted of a broad set of contradictory policies, though they had a common goal: profits first. Regarding the self, the hallmarks of neoliberalism were entrepreneurship, independence, and self-responsibility.

This lecture examines the constellation of actors and interests that sought to transform porcelain, once the “white gold” of European and Russian court societies, into a useful and valuable material in interwar Soviet Russia. In a society that struggled between eliminating class distinctions and maintaining structures of power, the production of consumer goods was the everyday staging ground upon which designers, critics, and political officials represented those disputes.

  

The European University at St. Petersburg will host the International Conference "RUSSIA BETWEEN REFORMS AND REVOLUTIONS, 1906-1916" on May 26-28, 2017.

For many years Jacqueline Bhabha has worked on issues of human rights and migration with a focus on gender and child related challenges; over the last decade she has also done research on economic and social rights, particularly focused on preventing harms such as exploitation, exclusion and violence that so often trigger migration and the vulnerabilities that result.

The Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (HSF) is deeply concerned about the situation around the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). The HSF has with great anxiety followed the alarming news about the possible revocation of the university’s license.

Offener Brief zur Unterstutzung der Europaischen Universitat in St. Petersburg

Dear Rector Kharkhordin:

The hearing on the EUSP lawsuit challenging the inspection acts of Rosobrnadzor took place today at the 9th Arbitration Court of Appeal. The court session has been adjourned until July 13, 2017 in response to a corresponding petition made by Rosobrnadzor. The supervisory agency intends to prepare an additional position on the calculation of the share of "practicing teachers", taking into account the clarifications received from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The university supported Rosobrnadzor's petition.