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

The IberAClub of the Primakov Center hosted a master class on Argentine tango. The event was held in collaboration with the ISClub of the E.M. Primakov Center. The Argentine tango master class was conducted by the founder of the A. Sukhov Argentine Tango School – TangoS – Alexander Sukhov. Steps, turns, pauses, and embellishments – it’s all about tango. Argentine tango is a social dance, without memorized choreography, based on improvisation and communication between partners. Everything that happens is born “here and now”. Therefore, it is very important that people accept and understand each other. The participants of the master class …

On December 8, 2024, the E.M. Primakov Center participated in the Open Day of Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev! Open Day participants learned about the activities of our center, our main projects and events, achievements and opportunities, as well as our favorite clubs! We are happy to see new faces! Welcome to the E.M. Primakov Center!

On December 7, 2024, in the UN Hall of of the Regional Centre for the Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov, a scientific seminar was held, which was conducted by the research team working under the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 24-28-01430 “War and the temporal regime of modernity: a study of the vital experience of the present in the perception of combatants and non-combatants of the First World War”. Y. A. Golubinov, Dean of the Faculty of History, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor; Y. A. Zherdeva, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor …

On 6-7 December 2024 the Faculty of History hosted the anniversary ‘XXX All-Russian Platonov Readings’ dedicated to the memory of Academician Sergey Fedorovich Platonov (1860-1933). The Youth Forum has been organised since 1996 on the initiative of the Department of Russian History. The Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Conference is P.S. Kabytov, Honoured Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Science, Professor, Honorary Professor of Samara University, Head of the Department of Russian History, Honorary Citizen of the Samara Region. The 30th Platonov Readings were attended by more than 70 students, postgraduates, applicants and young scientists …

From 5 to 7 December 2024 in Samara University named after Korolev there was held an All-Russian scientific conference ‘Theory and practice of forms of inter-genre synthesis, interaction and mutual reception of literary and art phenomena’, timed to the 55th anniversary of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature and Public Relations. The conference in a mixed form was attended by representatives of leading universities of Samara and Russia (participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Rostov, Perm, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, etc.), as well as from Belarus and China. During the three days of the conference about …

The Regional Centre for the Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov hosted a film screening of the film called «Das fliegende Klassenzimmer» based on Erich Kästner’s novel. The event was organised by the Department of German Philology and the German Language Centre of Samara University. Jonathan is only 12, but he has already changed six boarding schools. In Leipzig, he quickly gets to know his new classmates. In an abandoned train carriage they find a script for the play ‘The Flying Class’. With new music and lyrics that the boys come up with, this …

As part of World AIDS Day, the interactive film «Everything’s Complicated» is being shown The film «Everything’s Complicated» is an interactive project in which the audience chooses how the story will develop. The heroine of the film, Katya, who has been HIV-positive since birth, goes through difficulties that other people do not face. From childhood she has to take medication every day, and her mother has to explain to the parents of other children that HIV is not airborne; to tolerate illiterate remarks of her peers who are unaware of her status; to explain to the guard at the club …

Starting in 2024, December 1 has been declared the All-Russian Day of Mathematics. This date was established by order of the Russian Ministry of Education—on the birthday of the outstanding Russian scientist Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. The faculty and students of the Mechanics and Mathematics Department proposed a new tradition for this day—a family mathematics olympiad. To this end, the department announced team competitions for school-aged children and their parents, grandparents, and other family members. The Family Olympiad is an opportunity for adults to revisit their math lessons, for schoolchildren to showcase their knowledge, and for the whole family to spend …

It was like something out of a fanfiction… They met on a dark evening at “DerKlub” to discuss… web literature! It all started with an introduction: how it emerged, why it became popular, and what impression it made… To get to know each other better, they delved into the most vibrant genres of web literature and identified their distinctive features. Eager to immerse themselves in the culture of German-speaking fanfiction enthusiasts, they explored the most authentic platforms for reading. And what’s a discussion without precise calculations?… To uncover the preferences of Germans, they gathered statistics on the most popular fandoms …

On November 28, 2024, a tour of the exhibition “The Development of Rocket Engineering in Russia” took place. Recently, students from School No. 68 visited our exhibition. In a small, cozy university classroom, the students received a wealth of fascinating information about the life and work of an extraordinary individual, a dreamer, an engineer, and a pioneer in the creation of spacecraft — S.P. Korolev. The schoolchildren were able to ask all their questions about the early stages of rocket engineering development in the country. Moreover, by examining archival documents provided by the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, …