On April 6 at 5:30 PM, in the White Hall of EUSP, Vladimir Drebentsov, Vice-President for External Affairs of BP Russia, will give a talk about the tendencies of oil and gas development during difficult economic times and periods of low oil prices. The talk will be prefaced by an awards ceremony of BP scholarship winners. A question and answer session will follow. The lecture will be in English.

On March 15, the Advisory Council announced the results of the two competitions for the Vladimir Potanin Scholarship Program: The Scholarship Competition for students, and the Grant Competition for professors. We are very pleased to congratulate two EUSP students—Anna Burova, a student in the Department of Economics, and Mikhail Pitatelev, a student in the Department of History—for their victory in winning scholarships from the Vladimir Potanin Foundation. We wish them much success! 

April, 13. 03:00 PM, Golden Hall. World Bank Lead Economist and Program Leader Birgit Hansl will present the main findings of the Russia Economic Report (RER). This semi-annual World Bank publication synthesizes recent trends on key economic indicators, provides the World Bank economic outlook for Russia for 2016-18, and analyzes strategic policy issues.

Political scientist Vladimir Gel’man on why the idea of modernization in Russia isn’t working.  What is “bad governance” and where did it come from in Russia? Why don’t institutions work in the country, and reforms usually only make things worse? Can we change this? European University at St. Petersburg and University of Helsinki professor Vladimir Gel’man tried to answer these questions and others in the course of a lecture organized by the Yegor Gaidar Foundation and the Sakharov Center. “Lenta.ru” took down the main points of his presentation.

Professor in the Department of Economics Dmitry Travin on how political battle is changing in the aftermath of social conflicts. The phenomenon of Donald Trump elicits ever more surprises. The ambitious outsider billionaire won this week’s “Super Tuesday” and is now rapidly approaching victory in the Republican primaries—even though recently a large number of competent analysts convincingly explained that candidates like Trump never win.

On Friday, March 11 at 18:00, EUSP Conference Hall, IMARES program hosted Norwegian film director Beate Petersen presenting her film followed by a discussion. The event was made possible by the generous support of Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

On Friday, March 11 at 18:00, EUSP Conference Hall, IMARES program will host Norwegian film director Beate Petersen presenting her film followed by a discussion.

Together with the Department of Economics at the European University at St. Petersburg, the online newspaper “Bumaga” has launched a project devoted to important economic issues that are useful to understand for even nonprofessionals. Leading department professors discuss areas of economics that directly affect the lives of people anywhere in the world.

The image of the domestic servant has traditionally been a symbol of inequality and exploitation. How to explain the existence of domestic servants in the Soviet state, which made claims about the abolition of exploitation of man by man, and the liberation of women from kitchen slavery? Why paid domestic labor was neither condemned nor driven into the informal economy, but rather became an official part of the socialist economy?

The registration for the first online course “RUSSIA'S GAS STRATEGY” launched at the Stepic platform is opened. Irina Mironova, senior lecturer of the ENERPO program recorded 23 lessons on the global enery market and the place of Russia. The course will last from April 18 till June 13. Participation is free of charge but preliminary registration is required.

On April 3rd, the European University at St. Petersburg held a meeting with Alexei Mordashov, general director of the JSC “Severstal” and one of the leading figures on the list of Russian billionaires, according to Forbes Magazine. EUSP rector Oleg Kharkhordin presented the guest with a short biography, highlighting that Mordashov is a patriot of Cherepovets, where he still has an apartment.

Beginning in 1958 and until the late 1980s, students from the so-called “developing countries” studied in Soviet universities—in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as in Tashkent and Kharkov. These students benefited from the Soviet government’s ambitions to expand its influence in the new independent post-colonial states, but also experienced difficulties in everyday life in Soviet society.

On December 14th, MDM Professor of Financial Econometrics Hakan Eratalay gave a presentation as part of the EUSP Department of Economics’ research seminar. Professor Eratalay presented his report based on an article co-authored with Department of Economics graduate Vitaly Merso.

On November 23d, 2015 as part of the Res Publica Center’s regular seminar Carlo Taviani (German Historical Institute in Rome) delivered a lecture.