The Rector of the European University at Saint-Petersburg, Nikolai Vakhtin met with the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg, Alla Manilova and the Chairman of the St.Petersburg  Committee on Science and Higher Education, Andrei Maximov

n the Golden Hall, Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, held an informal discussion with students and faculty of EUSP.

Тhe Vice-Prime Minister, the 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 meeting of the trustees and friends of the Fund of European University at Saint-Petersburg which was held in the hall of State Council of the Hermitage.

The ceremony was opened by Konstantin von Eggert, MBE, Moscow Bureau Editor of the BBC Russian Service (2002-2009), Vice-President of ExxonMobil Russia Inc., who gave an inspirational lecture on his career path.

The Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation John Beyrle and Consul General of the U. S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg Sheila Gwaltney visited EUSP.

The Director General of The Vladimir Potanin Charity Foundation, Larissa Zelkova gave a talk

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 4th special meeting of trustees and friends of the EUSP Endowment Fund.

This conference is conceived as a central academic event of EUSP. It is designed not only to bring together representatives of different EUSP departments, but also to represent our scholarly achievements to our colleagues in other universities and research centers.

In the White and Golden Hall of EUSP  there was the presentation  of  the Institute for the Rule of Law which was opened in EUSP in the fall of 2009. esearch advisor of the Institute - Vadim Volkov.

EUSP proudly hosted the lecture of Valery Gergiev, the general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre.

Center for Environmental and Technological History of EUSP, together with the Arctic Center of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) co-led the international conference

Professor Mieke Bal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, presented video and lecture.

 Aleksei Kudrin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, member of the Board of Trustees of the EUSP and the EUSP Fund met with students, graduates, and instructors of the University.

EUSP experts, representatives of the St. Petersburg business community as well as journalists took part in it. A special guest of the round table was Sergei Petrov (Russian State Duma deputy, member of the Tax and Budget Committee, founder of the Rolf Group)

Within the framework of the Open seminar of the Department of History  Professor Claudio Sergio Nun Ingerflom of the French National Center for Scientific Research/National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina) presented his paper

The lecture by professor Deepak Lal, University of California, Los Angeles

The second time the city hosted the event organized by the Delegation of European Commission to Russia. A prominent scholar from Greece Loukas Tsoukalis, a Polish public figure and well-known journalist Adam Michnik, a German diplomat and politician Gunter Pleuger as well as a professor of Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Sergei Medvedev were participating in the debate. 

As a part of a series of Open Research Seminars of the Art History Department there was the lecture by professor Sarah Wilson, Courtauld Institute, University of London