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Ziong Chung Hieu, from Vietnam, is the first year student of the ‘Economics and Politics in Asia’ Double Degree BA Programme which offers students a unique opportunity to pursue two degrees, one from HSE and one from Kyung Hee University. He originally enrolled in HSE’s Mathematics programme last year but soon realized that mathematics was not really close to his heart. Now, after switching majors, he is happy with his choice.

On February 20, an open lecture was held at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism by an associate professor at the Deparment of Political Science – University of Genova Mara Morini on the topic “Populists in power: the case of the Five Italian Movement and the League”.

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 February 14, an international lecture by Anton Vadimovich Polyachenkov, intern of the, “The Role of German Analytical Centers in the Formation of German African Politics (Sub-Saharan Africa Case)”, was held at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism.

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.

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”.

Nikita Ganzha, student of the Middle East section of the HSE School of Asian Studies, told about his internship at the Trade Representation of Russia in Cairo.

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.

Maxim Y. Medvedkov, head of the HSE Department of Trade Policy, gave an expert opinion on the trade agreement between China and the United States signed by the countries on January 15, 2020.