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

On 16th May the Spanish-language literature Day passed in the IberAClub of the Regional Centre for Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov. The event started with the speech of the head of the Hispano Centre in Samara Jairo Verdugo. Speaker told about the life and creativity of Miguel de Cervantes, who is the author of the most famous novel «The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha».  The evening continued with a speech of Samara University’ s teacher Alonso Aguilar. He immersed  participants in the rich world of Spanish-language literature. Interesting Fact: Miguel de …

From April 22 to 25, third-year student of the Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev, majoring in International Relations — Angelina Movsisyan — completed an internship at the African Studies Department of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. This opportunity has opened up for future specialists in the field of international relations due to the support of the Regional Centre for the Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov.  Africa is a part of the student’s scientific interests and profile of future scientific work.  During …

The color of politics is red, black, or perhaps… purple?  Another meeting of “DerKlub” was dedicated to the political system of Germany.  The invited speaker of the meeting was Alena Denisovna Lisenkova, PhD of Political Sciences, lecturer at the RANEPA St. Petersburg, invited lecturer at the HSE University.   We felt like real politicians and got to know:  what political parties exist in Germany  specifics of the election system in Germany  why each party has its own color  which parties are represented in “Traffic light” coalition what prospects Germany candidates have in the European Parliament elections  We had a question for …

The Regional Centre for the Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov held a reporting and elective conference of the Faculty of the Sociology trade union bureau. During the event, the new chairperson of the Sociology Faculty trade union bureau was announced — it is Victoria Alekseeva. And the vice-chairperson — Victoria Shamina — was elected too.  Source: Faculty of Sociology trade-union bureau 

From April 22 to 26, third-year students of Samara University in the field of International Relations – Kuzmina Karina and Sivkov Ivan were interning at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The region of Latin America is in the scientific interests of the trainees The students’ trip made a great contribution to strengthening cooperation between the Primakov Center and ILA RAN. Karina and Ivan attended master class on resume writing, which will help them in the future to properly design resumes and motivation letters. In addition, the students were shown a master class on working …

From April 22 to 26, Ekaterina Sarycheva and Polina Nechetova, fourth-year students of Samara University in the field of International Relations, had an internship at Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. During the internship, they had an opportunity to discuss the topics of their final qualifying works with the country’s best experts in the field of American studies, and also attended the International Conference “The USA and the Changing Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region”, organized by Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies in partnership with Institute of China and Contemporary …

On May 6, the Portuguese Language Day was held at the IberAClub of the Primakov Center! And thanks to Aguilar-Valera Jose Alonso, the professor of Samara University, we plunged into the colorful world of Portuguese-speaking. At the beginning of the meeting, we got acquainted with the basics of the language, pronounced our first phrases in Portuguese and found out in which countries it is spoken. Then we talked about the work of such writers as Luis de Camoens, Jorge Amadou, Jose Saramago and discussed football. And at the end of the meeting, we listened to incendiary Portuguese-language music of different …

From April 22 to 26, third-year students of the International Relations program of Samara University, Gunel Aliyeva and Anastasia Masharova, undertook an internship at the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  This opportunity has opened up for future specialists in the field of international relations due to the Regional Centre for the Development of Public Diplomacy and International Relations named after Yevgeniy M. Primakov.  The Institute of China and Modern Asia of the RAS was established in September 1966 by a decree of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Until 2022, the …

On April 22-26, students of Samara University in the field of International Relations Margarita Zhitnova and Elizaveta Malikova had an internship at the ASEAN Center in MGIMO-University the MFA of Russia. The Southeast Asia region and ASEAN are among the scientific interests of the trainees. Such an opportunity opened for future specialists in the field of international relations thanks to the support of the Primakov Center. The trip to Moscow of two students contributed to the strengthening of friendly relations between MGIMO and Samara University. Margarita and Elizabeth attended a lecture by Syed Marwan, Associate Professor at the Institute of …

On April 25, our video game conversation club was held! It was attended by students and guests of our university. A RUDN student, who participated in the discussion via video link, prepared a fascinating quiz – we guessed references to works of art in games. Together we came to the conclusion that video games reflect our reality, which means that they can fully be called a form of art. By the way, you can read more about it in the supplementary materials: As it was said at the end of our meeting, play video games and get to know art …