... reality has laid bare the long-standing problems in Russia–Africa relations. The most glaring of these problems is that Africa is changing rapidly. Russia is thus finding it increasingly difficult to rely on its Soviet legacy. This is especially true of educational contacts. In Soviet times, the future elites of African countries (political functionaries, military officers, production managers, engineers and doctors) received their education in the USSR. Today, however, African graduates of Russian universities ...
... August 28, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a seminar “National Strategies of the BRICS Countries: Assessments and Prospects for Cooperation” within the BRICS School program. The organizers of the international scientific and educational BRICS School program are the National BRICS Research Committee and the Public Diplomacy Support Fund named after A.M. Gorchakov.
Dmitry Razumovsky, Acting Director at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies, Alexey Zakharov, Research ...
... relations
Twenty years ago in the Italian city of Bologna, an event took place that radically changed the lives of millions of people in Europe, primarily of a significant part of the new generation of Europeans. On June 19, 1999, the ministers of education of 29 European states got together at Europe’s oldest university and adopted the European Higher Education Area declaration, more widely known as the Bologna Declaration. This marked the beginning of the so-called Bologna Process, an initiative ...
... off large external debt. However, although the amount of aid for developing nations is substantial, its effect could be more targeted and important for bilateral relations and the progress of the recipient countries if this aid were more focused on education and healthcare. In the same way cooperation in migration that seriously helps reduce poverty through cash remittances by migrants to their families at home, a focus on supporting education and healthcare could produce a much bigger effect compared ...
Report No. 40/2018
Report No. 40/2018
This report is the result of a new stage in the research of the online English-language resources on the websites of Russian universities and is a follow-up to the initial report produced by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) entitled «Web Internationalization: Russian Universities» in 2015. This issue provides a new ranking as of 2017–2018. The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language websites of universities and analyzed...
... unemployability of young Americans. Fake news overload naturally leads to pervasive intellectual stupefaction. US policy-makers will ignore this ominous trend, just as they ignore the perennial national slide in global indices that measure the quality of life,
education
and
human capital yields
. Can the human mind — incessantly subjected to politicized fairy tales and violent belief systems — be capable of continual innovation? It is of course easier to blame an external bogeyman for a purely internal ...
On September 27, 2018, professors and post-graduates of Seoul National University and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies visited RIAC.
On September 27, 2018, professors and post-graduates of Seoul National University and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies visited RIAC.
The guests from the Republic of Korea discussed the current state of security issues on the Korean Peninsula, the prospects for bilateral relations between North Korea and the United States, the role of Russia and China...
On September 18, 2018, representatives of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, visited Russian International Affairs Council. The delegation was headed by Geneviève Zubrzycki, director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
On September 18, 2018, representatives of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, visited Russian International Affairs Council. The delegation was headed by Geneviève Zubrzycki, director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies...
... Burini, Director of the Centre for the Studies of Russian Arts (CSAR), and Giuseppe Barbieri, head of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, visited Russian International Affairs Council.
Italian experts discussed the role of cultural and educational cooperation in the development of Russia's relations with Italy and the European Union as a whole, as well as possible areas of joint work to enhance the effectiveness of such cooperation amid the complicated political situation in Europe ...
On Monday, May 21, 2018, in Russian State University for the Humanities, RIAC representatives took part in the presentation of signing an agreement on scientific and cultural cooperation between the Sudan’s Abdulatif Alhamad University of Technology and Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH).
On Monday, May 21, 2018, in Russian State University for the Humanities, RIAC representatives took part in the presentation of signing an agreement on scientific and cultural cooperation between...
