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On April 11, a session entitled “Southeast Asia in the Context of Global Turbulence: Plans, Realities and Prospects, as part of Section IA Oriental Studies, XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, took place. Evgeny Kanaev (the moderator, HSE University), Tatiana Kolesnikova (SPB GUAP), Mikhail Terskikh (IMEMO RAS), Liu Xingtao (Shenyang University) and Dmitry Fedorenko (HSE University) participated in the session.The participants focused on major issues shaping politics, economy and security in Southeast Asia. Salient features of ASEAN policy amidst a new Cold War, the trans-national digital infrastructure, exemplified by the 5G Internet, as a priority of ASEAN Economic Community 2025, protectionism and free trade as part of policy of ASEAN and its member states, Chinese expert approaches to Southeast Asia from a Belt and Road Initiative Perspective were discussed in detail. The speakers offered recommendations on how to increase efficiency of Russia’s and China’s policies, as well as of China-Russia cooperation, in Southeast Asia. The presentations and the subsequent discussion demonstrate that Southeast Asia is increasing in significance for the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Russian and Chinese scholars will join efforts in producing recommendations on major directions, measures and mechanisms of goal setting and policies of their countries, to their collective advantage.   

On April 10, the session «India as a leading Power: Foreign policy initiatives and priorities» was held in an online format within the framework of the section «Oriental Studies» (heads: Dr. O.V. Volosyuk, Dr. T.V. Bordachev, Dr. A.N. Karneev). The moderator of the session was Dr. Olga Kharina, Research Fellow in the School of International Regional Studies.

Within the framework of the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University, in partnership with the Russian Middle East Association, held an honorary lecture by British diplomat, founder and director of the Conflicts Forum NGO Dr. Alastair Crooke on the topic “Israel in a period of transformation and radicalization: war is inevitable?”

The School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University organized an expert round table “The Middle East in the New Geopolitical Realities” on April 6, 2023 within the framework of XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

The School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University, within the framework of the XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, organized an honorary lecture “A World in Disorder - a View from Cairo” by Dr. Nabil Fahmy, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (2013- 2014), Dean of the School of International Affairs and Public Policy, American University in Cairo.

Within the framework of the project “National Idea/Identity of the “Western” East: Japan”, head of the project, Professor of the School of International Regional Studies of theFaculty of World Economy & International Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa (hereinafter: GNT) was invited in Tokyo as an expert for a special edition of the program of one of the three most prominent in Japan opposition politicians and independent political analysts who, even before the start of the Ukrainian conflict, suggestedits alternative to the mainstream interpretation, Yukihisa Oikawa (YO in the interview script below), answering the questions about the prospects of the Japan-Russia relations.

On March 16, 2023, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University within the framework of the permanent online seminars «Contemporary Area Studies», with the support of the Russian Middle East Association, organized the 63th online seminar with a researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Grigory Lukyanov.

Within the framework of the International Youth Dialogue “Voice of the Future”, a project implemented by the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, with the support of the Russian Middle East Association, the fourth international online round table “Challenges for young people in today's realities” was held.

The School of Regional Studies (SRS) congratulates Sergey Luzyanin, Andrey Baklanov and Evgeny Kanaev for diligent and perfect work, as well as on the occasion of HSE University’s 30^th anniversary! 

Dr. Olga Solodkova and Dr. Olga Kharina participated in the Festival within the framework of the Indian line and organized a number of events dedicated to India.