Ilya Kozylov

On October 22, 2025, HSE University hosted an open meeting with representatives of the Chinese news agency Xinhua, led by Sun Zhiping, Chief of Staff to the Director General. Participants discussed current challenges in journalism and the operational specifics of news agencies in today’s media landscape. Many students took the opportunity to ask questions and practise speaking Mandarin. The visit was organised by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs in collaboration with the HSE Institute of Media and the TASS news agency.

On April 15, 2025, as part of the Oriental Studies section of the XXV Anniversary Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, a session titled “China and India: Global Powers of Asia” was held. The session was organized by the School of Regional Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University.

An HSE delegation, led by Rector Nikita Anisimov, visited China for negotiations with the administration of the country’s top universities. The parties agreed to expand bilateral scientific and educational collaboration and signed several documents. In particular, a strategic partnership agreement was established with Peking University, one of the oldest and most prestigious educational institutions in China.

On February 6, the School of Regional Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University in collaboration with the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and with the support of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, held an international round table titled“The Current Situation in the World and the Middle East: Key Trends and Pressing Issues.”

On November 28, the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University jointly with The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund held a meeting as part of the ongoing seminar “Contemporary Area Studies” with Munhoz Svartman Eduardo, professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), on the topic “Brazil's International Cooperation in the Field of Defense: Main Goals and Partners”.

On October 29, 2024, the session titled “Turn to the East 2.0: the Asian Vector of Russia's Siberization” was held within the framework of the VI International Conference “The World Majority and the Structuring of International Multipolarity”. This session was conducted under the aegis of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs’ research project, “Siberian Russia: Turn to the East 2.0”.

The section “North-East Asia (China, North and South Korea, Japan, Mongolia): Regional Asymmetries, Challenges and Security Resources” was moderated by Prof. S.G. Luzyanin (HSE University) and took place within the framework of the study of Russia's East Asian pivot, the specifics of China's rise in the region and the world, and Korean, Japanese, and Mongolian regional issues. Twelve speakers, representing HSE University, MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, focused on the key issues of the conference agenda – the reaction of the World's majority in new realities. The section's task was to shed light on the specifics of country and regional processes, large infrastructure projects (the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, Tumangan, etc.) in Northeast Asia, using examples from China, Japan, South Korea, and Mongolia.