In recent months, we, as British academicians with a deep knowledge of and admiration for Russian culture and history, have become increasingly concerned by the situation at the European University, St Petersburg. We all know and respect the University's work, which has also been repeatedly recognised by international rankings of universities. In just over 20 years, since it was founded, the EUSP has established a worldwide reputation as a centre of excellence in humanities and social sciences.

Memorandum of Understanding on Academic Cooperation between University of Lapland and European University at St. Petersburg 26.4.2017

EUSP Department of History alumnus (1999) Evgenii Rostovtsev  has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of History, Saint Petersburg State University, on April 19, 2017. Dissertation title: “Saint Petersburg University in the Context of Russian Social and Political History (1884-1917)”.

Evgenii Vladimirov, second-year student at the EUSP Department of Economics, was admitted with a full scholarship to the MPhil in Economics program at Tinbergen Institute. The Research Master (MPhil) program is a core part of the PhD track at TI.

Dear Dr. Kharkhordin, On behalf of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan, I want to express our support for European University at St. Petersburg.

This paper examines the question of gender and women through analysing the contrasts between the representation and reality of the Soviet nurse.

Dear Professor Kharkhordin,

Statement of theCouncil for Science at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federationabout the situation around the European University at Saint Petersburg April 12, 2017 | Statement original in Russian (pdf) |

On April 13, 2017 the 9th Arbitration Appeal Court of Moscow has adjourned the decision-making session regarding the EUSP license issue and claims of Rosobrnadzor until May 16, 2017

Dear Rector Kharkhordin,

The Aleksanteri Institute, the Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Helsinki, expresses its strong support for the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP).

A joint paper “On discounting and voting in a simple growth model” written by the professors of the Departement of Economics, Kirill Borissov, Mikhail Pakhnin, Clemens Puppe has been published by the journal European Economic Review.  

The "Russian Drug Map" developed by the IRL is recognized as the best research project using open data at the Second All-Russian contest "Open Data in the Russian Federation".

Colleagues at the European University at St. Petersburg, The Russian and East European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh extends its strong support for the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) in a situation that has given rise to grave concern in the international academic community.

The Russian Foundation for Humanities has published a list of research projects, that will be awarded with its grants. Congratulations to the research team led by Professor Boris Kolonitskii for being awarded a grant for their project "The politicization of the language of religion and the sacralization of the language of politics during the Russian Civil War." About the project:

Letter of support for EUSP

The association of Finnish sociologists, the Westermarck Society, expresses its unanimous support for the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) whose activities are endangered due to alleged violations of administrative regulations.

Today, on April 5, 2017, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast ruled on the EUSP claim against the Committee for Property Relations to declare unjustified the unilateral refusal to implement the lease agreement. The court did not uphold the EUSP claim. The decision of the court may be appealed at the 13th Arbitration Appeal Court within a month after its publication.

How was it to live in the collapsing Soviet Union as a 24 years old foreign correspondent in 1990? What did glasnost mean for the work of a Finnish journalist and how is it to work now in Russia, when journalists are harassed by pro-Kremlin activists?