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On April 5, 2022, a session entitled “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on China's Foreign Policy Positions and International Image” was held as part of the XXIII Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.

Aisylu Garaeva, a student of the program “Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia”, became the winner of the Vladimir Potanin Fund Scholarship Competition.

Associate Professor of the School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics E.A. Khokhlova gave a lecture on contemporary South Korean art as part of the Days of Asian Culture at GES-2.

Alexander Starshinov, a 2nd year student of the master's program "Socio-economic and political development of modern Asia", talks about his internship at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.

On March 18, the team of the project “Dialogues about the East” held the first open meeting this year with A. Fursov – a famous historian, social scientist, academician of the International Academy of Sciences. This event was devoted to evaluating the role of oriental studies and history in the system of social sciences.

Daria Vanifatyeva about exchange programme in Finland

On March 12, 2021 the School of Asian Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, held the conference ‘Women in The East: History, Society, Science’ for the first time.

On December 16-17, 2020, experts, diplomats, regional and oriental scholars from 36 countries and six regions of Russia met on the virtual platform of the Higher School of Economics to discuss new trends of regionalization and de-globalization in the world development. These trends were vividly manifested in Asia during the last year - the period of extraordinary upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Students of the School of Asian Studies rang in the Korean and Chinese New Years, respectively, with lively celebrations this past week.