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Set to launch in the fall of 2020, HSE’s new English-taught master’s programme ‘Economics, Politics, and Business in Asia’ is now accepting applications. Students of the programme will spend their first and fourth semesters at HSE University in Moscow and their second and third semesters at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Programme graduates will receive a diploma from each partner university. Professor Denis Shcherbakov, programme Academic Supervisor, explains what students can expect in the new programme.

Prof. Karaganov has published a new article “Where to Go and with Whom to Go: Russia’s Foreign Policy on the Threshold of a New Decade” in ‘Rossiiskaya Gazeta’.

In honour of the event, the university’s Palmyra Club held an evening of Arabic poetry. The future orientalists read works by their favourite authors, as well as their own translations of the poems. School of Asian Studies graduates, who had won grants to study at a university in Qatar, also shared their recommendations as to who should study Arabic.

On December 3, Alan Wolff, Deputy Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), gave a lecture on “WTO 2.0”.

On October 10, HSE experts organized a session on “Multilateralism - Expectations from the new generation” within the framework of the WTO Public Forum 2019 held in Geneva from October 8 to 11. During the session, the prospects for regulating international trade and the need for the WTO reforms were discussed.

Professor Timofei Bordachev, academic supervisor at CCEIS, published an article “The East’s Rise and the New Russian Foreign Policy” on the website of the Valdai Discussion Club.

From 25 to 27 September 2019 the 4th international forum “Eurasian Week” was held. The event brought together more than a thousand of expert community representatives, entrepreneurs, state-officials from the EAEU member countries and third countries. “Eurasian Week” is the biggest international business forum on the EAEU territory.

The Eastern Economic Forum 2019 took place on 4–6 September in Vladivostok on the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) campus.

Timofey Bordachev, the CCEIS’s Academic Supervisor, took part in the International Forum on the Peace Economy, held in Seoul on 28 and 29 August 2019

Vasiliy Kashin, the CCEIS’s Senior Research Fellow, published an article “Russia and China: Union or Strategic Uncertainty?” on the website of the Russian International Affairs Council.