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

On March 13, 2024, the Samara Interuniversity Olympiad on Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette “SamDiP-2024” took place at the E.M. Primakov Center. During this event, students had the opportunity to feel like real specialists engaged in the preparation of diplomatic visits at a high level. Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council on International Affairs, Farit Mubarakshovich Mukhametshin, greeted the participants of the Olympiad, emphasizing the importance of such events for enhancing students’ knowledge levels in history and modern diplomacy. He highlighted that the skills acquired during the Olympiad would be beneficial to future specialists working in visit preparation …

The knowledge and skills of the participants to understand various cases on the organization of visits, as well as ordinary working meetings between businessmen, were evaluated by a highly qualified jury consisting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in Samara and teachers of the Department of General History, International Relations and Documentation of Samara University. It is worth noting that at the end of the Olympiad, each team had to present a project, within which it was necessary to analyze the features of the national protocol.