The lecture was devoted to a current state and specifics of the Russian insurance market. Hannes Chopra noted weak penetration of insurance services into the Russian economy, which is harmful for the economy growth rate. The Russian economy is pushed backward by any catastrophic event due to the fact that in each case losses are covered by the federal budget. Mr.

Oleg Lyapustin, the Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg City Property Committee, shared his views on the possibilities for job placement, and career growth in the St. Petersburg Government

A workshop on Science and Technology Studies (STS) participated by the prominenent sociologists and historians of science Harry Collins (Cardiff University), Andrew Pickering (University of Exeter), Trevor Pinch (Cornell University) Seminar program (pdf 28KB)

Graeme Wheeler (Advisor and Independent Non-Executive Director of the World Bank Group) and Hans-Joerg Rudloff (Barclays Capital Chairman) gave lecture united by the common topic. Graeme Wheeler presented a macroeconomic view to this issue. He elaborated on the types of international capital flows and discussed main factors determining their directions and intensity.

 

As a part of a series of the "Career Development" seminar Ivan Oskolkov, Director of the Corporate Governance Department of the Economy Ministry of Russia shared his views on the the career options in the federal government structures

 

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.