Yulia Belous

Session 'Western Politics and Institutions in New Reality' which took place on the first day of the conference, on the 30^th of November 2023 (moderator Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa) brought together scientists from the Department of International Regional Studies, other Departments of WE&IA Faculty, and other major research centers working in the field of research of the ‘world minority’.

Academics and students of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs and of the School of Foreign Languages were presented with a unique lecture from His Excellency Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Moscow. His frank assessments on the position of Latin American countries and their relations with Russia have set the stage for future cooperation between HSE and countries of the Caribbean Basin.

In September 22^nd, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, in cooperation with the School of Foreign Languages of HSE University and the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences promoted a Round Table on the issue “Chile and reasons behind its slow economic growth”.

Valdai Discussion Club published "The Iron Frame of Eurasia: Achievements, Problems and Prospects of Continental Connectivity" report, dedicated to the current situation and prospects for the development of logistics and trade ties located both within the Central Asian region and beyond.

On April 13, the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Higher School of Economics and the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs held the scientific online seminar «Making sense of Turkey's humanitarian diplomacy in the context of emerging poly-centric world order».The keynote speaker was Tarik Oguzlu, a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Antalya Bilim University. The report focuses on features, tools and level of effectiveness of humanitarian diplomacy of Turkey. The professor also assessed the effectiveness of Turkey's humanitarian diplomacy, depicted its the key achievements and failures.

Miras Zhiyenbayev and Julia Belous, published an article “Gain not to lose: Uzbekistan on the threshold of the EAEU” in “Russia in Global Affairs”.
Key ideas:
- Involvement of a new state into the integration processes can become an excuse for the EAEU’s slowdown, allow it to acquit the inability to build common markets with the accession of a new member-state, the subsequent periods of stagnation, or even rollback.
- Enlargement, following the European Union example, can contribute to the resolution of conceptual issues of further EAEU’s development.
- The involvement of a new participant means for the EAEU, on the one hand, the need for ultra-precise manual reconfiguration and possible revision of existing agreements due to the inclusion of a sizeable Eurasian economy. On the other hand, the Union recognizes the significance of the current reality and the impossibility of the final formation of single markets in such a limited time due to the need to adapt to reality with new project participants.
- Uzbekistan will solve a significant number of long-lasting internal development problems. The current EAEU members will gain no less significant benefits from Uzbekistan’s possible accession to the Union.

On May 29, 2020, the Higher School of Economics in cooperation with the Integration club under the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation held an online roundtable discussion “Searching for a new multipolarity architecture: international cooperation of the EAEU”. The event is included in the official distributed programme of the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. During the round table, an expert report was presented, in which the staff of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Higher School of Economics took part: T. Bordachev, A.B. Likhacheva, A. Korolev, A. Pyatachkova, Yu.  Belous, M. Zhiyenbayev, D. Malyutina, L. Krashennikova.

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 EAEU Young Leaders School was held during the IV Eurasian Week International Forum on September 25-27 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The participants learnt about EAEU universities’ education programmes on the Eurasian integration and brainstormed ideas of Eurasian brands and their global promotion strategies.