From April 14 to 17, our students studying in Rostov-on-Don under the two-degree program of the National Research University of Higher School of Economics and the Southern Federal University "Caucasus and the Middle East in the system of regional and International Relations" visited the Higher School of Economics. This is a joint network program on foreign regional studies, supervised by the Faculty of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies of the Southern Federal University. The student delegation consisted of eight representatives of the 3rd and 1st year students, as well as Anna Shapovalova, Associate professor at the Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies. The visit was timed to coincide with the E. G. Yasin International Conference held at the Higher School of Economics.