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

On April 17, 2024, the Primakov Centre hosted held a debate of the Unitis Club on the topic “Space privatization: should private companies play a key role in space exploration, or should it remain under the control of states?” as part of the “V Week of Russian Diplomacy”. Alexander Fedoseev, a representative of JSC SRC Progress, noted that cosmonautics is one of the main industries without which it is impossible to imagine the development of mankind. Ksenia Pisanenko, a lawyer for the private space company SR Space, mentioned in her opening speech that space is a sphere that is difficult …

14 апреля на площадке Центра имени Е.М. Примакова прошел день открытых дверей Исторического факультета. Поприветствовал всех Ярослав Голубинов, декан факультета. Он начал свой рассказ весьма символично — с истории: факультет возник в 1969 году. — Времена меняются, мы меняемся вместе с ними, истфак тоже меняется, но всегда остаётся местом, где изучают историю, затем документоведение, а после и международные отношения. Исторический факультет гордится своими выпускниками. Среди них политики, писатели, учёные, общественные деятели. Например, основатель «Том Сойер Феста» Андрей Кочетков. Говоря об образовательной программе, декан выделил пользу индивидуальных образовательных траекторий и наглядно продемонстрировал набор предметов на бакалавриате разных направлений подготовки.

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 …