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

Most recently, the SinoClub at the Primakov Centre hosted the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Our holiday was opened by a small but fascinating report by Gunel Aliyeva about the main traditions of the New Year in China. Did you know that in China there are seven dishes, eating which will make seven cherished desires come true, for example, fish brings prosperity, thangyuan or rice balls – a lot of happiness, and dumplings – health? Next, the young people took part in exciting master classes on calligraphy and making ornaments from our guest, a student of Samara University, Yishan Jiang. Everyone …

The Primakov Centre took part in a teleconference of the Center for Public Diplomacy of the Volgograd State University on the topic “Day of a diplomatic worker in the Russian Federation”. The conference discussed the specifics of building a diplomatic service in Russia. This is especially important now in the period of updating the international situation. The rector of the Volgograd State University, Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Professor Alla Eduardovna Kalinina made welcoming remarks to the participants of the conference. Dmitry Vadimovich Belov, Deputy Director of the Latin American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the …

On February 8, 2024, on Science Day, the Primakov Center held a meeting with the Director of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. The event was supported by the Department of External Relations of the Administration of the Governor of the Samara Region. Maria Zakharova, the Director of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, holds the rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia and is one of the most popular Russian diplomats. In 2015, she made history by becoming the first official spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign …

On February 6, 2024, the Primakov Center took part in a video conference of the USA and Canada Institute on behalf of Academician G. A. Arbatov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which, in partnership with the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held a joint conference on the topic “The Arctic in a Global Confrontation Context.” During the event, a number of issues were discussed: security issues, the development of the Northern Sea Route, as well as Finland and Sweden’s possible accession to NATO. The opening of the conference featured welcoming remarks from Academician of the Russian Academy of …