In comparison with its Western counterpart, the architecture of Russian classicism has only partly been included in world architectural historiography. The reason for this is the range of social, historiographical, and political factors, which are responsible for the peculiarities of the environment of the development of Russian classicism. In contrast, Western European neoclassicism produced a far more transparent paradigm, well-thought out in the both the general cultural sphere and in professional contexts.

Maksim Krongauz is a Doctor of Philology, professor, Head of the Russian Language Department, and Director (and one of the founders) of the Institute of Linguistics at the Russian State University for the Humanities. He graduated from the Philology Department of Moscow State University. He specializes in problems of the semiotics of language and culture, Russian grammar, theories of dialogue, political discourse, and humor. In recent years he has concentrated on changes in contemporary Russian language.

The workshop is aimed at promoting the use of advanced economic theory in the field of natural resources, environment and growth.

Ruben Vardanian is Troika Dialog's Board Chairman and CEO and SKOLKOVO School of Management President.

 

Vera Milchina – a historian of Russian and French literature, candidate of philology, leading research fellow of the Institute of Higher Studies in Humanities, translator of French fiction, memoirs as well as historical and political texts. She was awarded the medal of French Academic Palm branch, the Leroy-Beaulieu prize for the best work about France and the Wasmacher’s award for the best translation from the French given by the French embassy in Moscow.

Professor Keenan has served as Associate Director (1973-1975) and then as Director (1976-1977) of Harvard's Russian Research Center, and as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies over a considerable period of time. He has also served as Director of The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington DC. Professor Keenan is the author of  a number of texts that contest the authenticity normally attributed to the Russian medieval period — “The Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha: The Seventeenth-century Genesis of the 'Correspondence' Attributed to Prince A. M.

  As a part of the international conference “Novgorodica—2010”, Department of History of EUSP, Research center “Res Publica” and  the Novgorod Branch of Saint-Petersburg Institute of History (Russian Academy of Sciences) held the Round table    Program (pdf 88KB)

 

The ceremony began with the annual address by the Rector of the University, Oleg Kharkhordin and the deans of the faculties. Among the guests in attendance at the ceremony were members of the Board of Trustees, friends, and partners of the European University. The honored guest of the meeting was Anatoly Chubais, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, RUSNANO who delivered the talk on the development of innovative economy in Russia "Economic and technological aspects of Modernisation in Russia".

A festive ceremony celebrating the end of the 2009-2010 academic year and the awarding of diplomas to graduates of the Master's program was held in the Conference Hall of EUSP Graduates of the European University are a new generation of active, thinking, talented, and enterprising people, who are finding uses for their abilities in different spheres: science, education, business, art, management.

 Can Russia preserve its academic traditions, in particular in the fundamental sciences? The answer to this much-discussed question is not obvious. Old formulas and ways of thinking are clearly no longer of use: science has changed unalterably in recent years, and no rash decisions by state authorities will help to find a suitable answer to this question.

The Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, member of the EUSP Board of Trustees Alexei Kudrin and the Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Chairman of the EUSP Board of Trustees Mikhail Piotrovsky chaired the fifth special meeting of trustees and friends of the EUSP Endowment Fund which was held in the State Council hall of the Hermitage. Heads of Russian and foreign companies, as well as EUSP professors and staff attended the meeting. A short presentation of corporate funded professorships already established at the University was held.

EUSP has proudly hosted the honored guest lecture by James Wolfensohn, the ninth President of the World Bank. Mr. Wolfensohn shared his views on the general paths of economic development in Post-World War II Europe and the US, and on the global economy that emerged afterwards. In his talk he touched upon the necessity to strengthen the competitiveness of the Western countries by improving education and developing innovative technologies. Mr Wolfensohn then dwelled on the recent experience of the Asian countries, India and China in particular.

In the past few years as a part of the ethnology of religion, everyone has been talking more frequently about the need to create an "anthropology of secularism," which would teach contemporary secularism as an ideology and a political practice. To Western academics, secularism is usually perceived as an aspect of political liberalism, and the aim of its examination is as a criticism of liberal ideas about the privatization of religion and the world outlook of a neutral state.

EUSP proudly hosted the lecture by the Deputy Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation Stanislav Voskresenskij. In his speech, Mr. Voskresenskij elaborated on the state policy in the spheres of innovations, investment and entrepreneurship development. He touched upon the current situation with natural resource management and expressed his opinion on the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation. After the talk Mr. Voskresenskij answered the questions from the students and professors of the University.

A seminar was participated by Mikhail Amosov, Olga Pokrovskaya, Boris Vishnevsky, Natalya Evdokimova, and Timur Nadtochey. Mikhail Amosov: Docent of St. Petersburg State University, Candidate of geographical science, Deputy of the 1st-3rd Legislative Assemblies; Olga Pokrovskaya: Lawyer, Docent of the State and Municipal Law Department of the Insitute for Humantarian Education;

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