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Lev Sokolshchik, an associate professor of the School of International Regional Studies and research fellow of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), has published an article in the Journal of Eurasian Studies. The paper addresses the following key issues:
- How has Russia’s place in U.S. foreign policy changed under the Biden administration?
- What factors have contributed to increased confrontation between the United States and Russia under the Biden administration?
- What factors limited U.S. foreign policy ambitions towards Russia, as well as any negotiation opportunities?
- Where was cooperation possible between the United States and Russia, and where were disputes inevitable?

On April 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 Joint Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Middle East Association, and the Middle East Club of the Lomonosov Moscow State University organized the 66th 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 HSE University Grigory Lukyanov.

On April 13, 2023, an open online seminar was held at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs within the framework of the project "India and the challenges of Global Politics", which was devoted to the Three Decades of India’s Economic Reforms.

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.