Regional Centre for Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov

Everything starts with love! On June 16 the Primakov Centre became a participant of Volgafest 2023 together with our SinoClub, TurkishClub and DerKlub. Let’s talk about everything in order! At 16.00 there was a SinoClub master class, where the participants learned the secrets of writing Chinese names, especially how to read and spell them correctly. SinoClub speakers told the audience that the Chinese language is based on characters, which are in turn made up of keys, keys are made up of features, and features are made up of lines. Finally, as the theme of VolgaFest was love, the citizens of …

On June 10, Vitaly Roschupkin, the head of the Regional Centre of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Evgeniy M. Primakov, and Daria Gul, the director of the Turkish language centre “TAMAM”, a teacher of TurkishClub at Samara University in International Relations department, organized a meeting with Ivan Starodubtsev, a Turkicologist, analyst, expert on Turkey, consultant of the Middle East Institute, with the 2nd year students of Samara University in International Relations. Ivan Igorevich told the students about his path in the field of international relations, what you need to know while doing business with Turks, about the main …

Here was the last DerKlub meeting of this academic year, dedicated to the works of R.M. Rilke … We didn’t expect so many of us, but were very happy about it! A great lecture about Rilke’s poetry, his unique creative method and the project “Rilke’s Society” was given by Inna Yamshchikova, Head of the Project Technologies Department of the MBUK Samara “SMIBS”. We learned about what Dinggedicht is and what “Rilke’s last poet” means. But the biggest discovery for all the guests of the club was that not only translators can translate With the scientific supervisor of “DerKlub” Y.V. Nesteryuk …

On May 31, the final ISClub meeting of this academic year was held. The children presented dances of different nations, namely: Spanish and Turkish dances. We had a picnic in nature and tried to replay Spanish national dances, as well as the national Turkish dance that is usually performed at celebrations! They also discussed common elements of dances of different nations. For example, Eastern countries are characterized by the use of circular movement of hands during the dance. But our meeting didn’t end there, and we started singing songs and even trying to communicate in different languages with native speakers. …

On May 31, at the joint meeting of Turkish Club and Unitis Discussion Group, we discussed a hot topic – the consequences of the elections in Turkey. Our students prepared useful materials, talked about each candidate and presented the second part of their own Russian-Turkish movie! The electoral system in Turkey is quite complex and multi-tiered! All elections in Turkey are held under a proportional mixed election system: This means that electoral votes are divided between political parties and candidates standing in single-mandate circles and in a multi-mandate bloc. We suggest you familiarize yourself with Turkish vocabulary on the current …