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On March 10, Andrei Baklanov, Professor, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Studies Section, School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 1st Class State Counselor of the Russian Federation, former Russian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Assistant Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Association of Russian Diplomats held an open meeting. 

On 5 March within the framework of the "Middle East Meetings" - a joint project of the Russian Middle East Association and the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and World Policy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics - an open meeting was held on the subject: "Idlib stumbling block" in the relations between Russia and Turkey".

On March 3, Masumova Nigar, PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, gave an open lecture on “Russian-Turkish economic relations in the context of new geopolitical realities”.

A round table in memory of a famous scientist, economist, orientalist Leonid Fridman “Developed and developing countries in the world economic space” was held on February 7.

On January 30, Farhad Ibrahimov, Head of the Head of the Iranian Studies Center at the Russian Middle East Association, an expert of IDC “Valdai”, held an open lecture on “Iran's relations with regional actors after the assassination of Kasem Suleimani”.

On January 30, Karamurzov Renat PhD, Professor of the of the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asia and Africa, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University (IAAS MSU) gave an open lecture on “The problem of multi-variant international economic comparisons based on PPP currencies on the example of the countries of the Greater Middle East”.

On January 23, an open lecture by Grigory Lukyanov - senior lecturer of FSS NRU HSE, researcher of the CIAS of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert, head of the expert club of the Russian Middle East Association on “Libya 2020: new features of the conflict and prospects for settlement” was held.

On the sidelines of the I international conference “Globalization in contemorary Asia”, a discussion was held on the political and socio-economic processes in South Asia.

On November 20-21, a discussion of the main political and socio-economic trends in Southeast Asia was held as part of the first international conference "Globalization in Contemporary Asia".

Session “Middle East” focused on the difficult and urgent topic of global and regional actors’ interaction in resolving conflicts and crisis situations. The processes of globalization for the Middle East and the North Africa region are directly linked to overcoming of old conflicts and settling new ones, as well as resistance to the wide range of security threats. Since the destructive influence of unresolved conflicts spread far behind the national boundaries and borders of the region itself, resolution of these conflicts is seen as a matter of special concern and conscious interest of both countries of the region, their immediate neighbors and also the main global actors.