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On November 26, an open lecture by Sergei Dmitriev “Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty: From Emperor to Street Merchant” was held in the Center of Oriental Literature of the Russian State Library.

The summer language school for students of the “Asian and African Studies” program of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Jilin University of Foreign Languages (JUFL) was held August 6-26. The students immersed themselves in learning the basics of the Chinese language, as well as spent several days in the Russian-Chinese border area, visited the sacred mountain Paektusan (Chinese: Changbaishan) on the border of the PRC and the DPRK and the Jingyuetan National Park Reserve.

The Russia team, represented by the students of the Asian and African Studies program, took part in the international championship in Arabic “Qatar Debate” in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

Chaired by Dmitri Bondarenko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Africa, and Director of theInternational Centre of Anthropology at the HSEFaculty of Humanities, the Dissertation Council comprises prominent Russian Orientalists and Africanists from HSE University and other leading institutions.

On February 10, 2024, HSE Cultural Center hosted a large-scale celebration of the Eastern New Year, organized by professors of the School of Asian Studies and students of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs.

On December 13, the team of the project “Dialogues about the East” held the fourth lecture of the series on the culture of India with Sofia Karanjia about Indian clothes and textiles.

A new article by Sergey Karaganov, Professor Emeritus, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, was originally published in Russian in a business newspaper “Profile” on June 13, 2023.

Ekaterina Kozlova, a 5th-year student of the ‘Asian Studies’ educational program, became a Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship holder and went to study in Hungary. Ekaterina tells about her impressions in this article.

The Oriental Dialogues team continues recording the podcast of the same name and hastens to share the first 2023 episode.

2nd year student of the master's program “Socio-economic and political development of modern Asia” Mariia Ponomareva talks about the exchange semester at Seoul National University, South Korea.