Fyodor Alekseev

On February 19, 2026, the Centre for Water Resources Research at the HSE Institute for Economics of Natural Resources and Climate Change held its second monthly Water Workshop, dedicated to the geopolitics of water in Latin America. Experts discussed how the growing interest of global powers in the region is linked to access to freshwater resources and how realistic the scenario of “water wars” might be.

A Junior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for the Economics of Climate Change, he presented a draft research article in collaboration with a Brazilian colleague as part of the School’s programme.

The Press Centre of the “International Relations and Global Studies” (IRGS) programme sat down with third-year student Elizaveta Kondratyeva, who is currently attending a summer school in China.

The report was prepared by the BRICS Expert Council – Russia with the support of the BRICS Think Tank Council (BTTC), following Russia’s 2024 presidency of the group.

IRGS students Timofei Petrov and Kirill Shurakov attended the conference “Water Resources in the Climate Policy of a Multipolar World” at the Russian Academy of Sciences

At the height of the tangerine season in Russia, Oleg Korneev, Academic Supervisor of the BA programme “International Relations and Global Studies” (IRGS) visited Oran (Algeria). The province of Oran is the birthplace and the veritable capital of clementines, which makes visiting it in winter especially symbolic. But Oran is known not only for its sweet sunny citrus fruits, rai music, urban legends from the times of the plague, inimitable architectural blends and unique seaside atmosphere that inspired works of Albert Camus and creations of Yves Saint Laurent. This second-largest city in Algeria is also an authoritative business and cultural centre, and a major pole of research and higher education in the country.

The Second Saint-Petersburg Congress on International Studies was held in St. Petersburg from April 25 to 27. Within the agenda of the Congress, the Laboratory on Climate Change Economics organized a session "Global Climate Policy in the Context of Geopolitical Transformations"