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Interview with Ekaterina Demidchenko, a first-year student of Master program Socioeconomic and Political Development of Modern Asia.

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.

Being a full-time Master student is a big challenge but our students can deal with it easily. Daria Galitsa, a second-year student of the programme “Socioeconomic and political development of modern Asia” talks about her path to HSE University, aspiration for Asian studies and the ability to find balance between studies and hobbies.

On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, the Department of International Relations and the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism in cooperation with the School of Oriental Studies of NRU Higher School of Economics held a joint session of Eurasian Online Seminar and China seminar.

On Friday, 4 December 2020, the Department of International Relations and the School of Oriental Studies of National Research University Higher School of Economics were honored to host a renowned Hong Kong entrepreneur Yu Pun-hoi. The topic of the discussion was “Sino-American Relations in an Era of "Unprecedented Change" and the Prospects for Continued De-Coupling After the New Master Appears in the White House”.

On May 22-23, the VII Scientific Student Conference of the School of Oriental Studies "Eastern Perspective" was held. Students of the educational program "Socio-economic and political development of modern Asia" took part in the round table "East-West: politics, economics, society" in English and won prizes.

Applications for participation in the conference are accepted in online form until May 20, 2020 inclusive.

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.

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.

Hello everyone! I am a 2nd year graduate student at the programme «Socioeconomic and political development of modern Asia». At the moment of writing this post, I am in the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). Around a week ago, at the end of November 2019, I celebrated the halfway mark of my study here.