New article by Jack Sharples, professor in the Department of political science and sociology has been published in the journal Geopolitics. Original Article was published online: 25 Mar 2016 Abstract:

12 April, 2016. 18:00, White Hall.

Tuesday, April 5, 17:30, EUSP Golden Hall, Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, will deliver a public lecture. Russian foreign policy is closely connected both to domestic political needs and dynamics of external situation. Both those factors are now rapidly developing. Domestic consolidation is solid, but lacks long-term vision, while international trends are out of anybody's control. Next couple of years will be decisive both in terms of global power constellation and in the context of Russian external vectors.

Friday, April 8, 17:30, EUSP Golden Hall, Dr. Mehdi Sanaei, Ambassador of Iran in Russia, will deliver a public lecture.

On Friday, April 15, Sir Vince Cable, former Liberal Democrat MP and Business Secretary under the Coalition Government (2010-2015) delivered an honorary lecture in the Golden Hall of the European University at St. Petersburg. Sitting next to Russia’s former finance minister (2000 – 2011) and member of EUSP Board of Trustees Alexei Kudrin, Sir Cable chose the title “minister of economics” to describe better his former position in the British Government while speaking to an audience in Russia.

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.

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.