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

We are sharing with you the moments of our conversational FranClub! It’s been 3 meetings already and we’re getting closer each time. At the second meeting, we discussed the dream job and the experience we had already gained. Today we talked about our hobbies and ways to relieve stress, because it’s already the middle of the semester and the session is just around the corner. If you also want to relax and spend time in good company, as well as practice speaking French, we are waiting for you at our next meeting!

On April 10, 2024, a meeting of the Turkish club dedicated to Turkish cinema was held at the Primakov Center. The participants of the event told about their serial preferences as well as their favorite actors. Students shared the emotions they felt while watching their favorite Turkish series, what details they noticed, what they liked and what they were repelled by. The participants of the event learned a lot of interesting facts about seemingly long known and popular series. For example, we found out: why is the super-popular in Russia series “Knock on my door” so actively criticized in Turkey …

“Hakuna matata” as a new philosophical movement or “what is this Raop of yours?”  Answers to these and other questions our guests learned on April 9 at the next meeting of the club, dedicated to German music in our most favorite cartoons. DerKlub thanks the 2nd year students of the Linguistics (gr. 5204-450302D) for their hard work and creative approach!  From the rich program of our meeting, the club members learned: whether the meaning of songs from the cartoon “Bremen Musicians” is similar in the Soviet and German versions; who the Kikoriki are and how Karych, Sowunya and other characters …

Bonjour, les amis! In the Primakov Centre, another FranClub meeting was held, this time dedicated to the topic of functional reading. Oleg V. Frolov, candidate of philological sciences, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia with great pleasure shared with the participants the secrets of functional reading. Each type of text and even a separate linguistic symbol can carry a lot of meanings that vary from the context! As our guest emphasized, these skills are universal and can be applied to any other language, not only French. We would like to thank our guest again for such a fascinating …

On April 4, 2024, the sessions of the LXXIV Youth Scientific Conference of the university were held at the Primakov Centre, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. SECTION OF TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL FACTORS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD  1st place – Alina Kustova, group 5301-410305D  2nd place – Artur Otstavnov, group 5301-410305D  3rd place – Denis Zhidkov, group 5201-410305D  SECTION “SOFT POWER” AND ITS INSTRUMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS  1st place – Vasilisa Moskvicheva, group 5201-410305D  2nd place – Yana Vidyaskina, group 5201-410305D  3rd place – Daria Gretsova, group 5102-410305D  3rd place – Samira …

The next DerKlub meeting dedicated to the history and culture of Germany was held. The guests of “DerKlub” were students of the Faculty of Philology of Samara University, as well as the Samara Law Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Everyone showed a keen interest in the topic of the meeting and took an active part in the collective creative work!  At the meeting, the guests of the club learned more about how the Holy Roman Empire came to be; who stood at the origins of its formation; what contradictions and conflicts the empire faced during its heyday; what led …