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🎓PolitIQ’s Post-Soviet Public Policy MA program’s students possess an opportunity of receiving PolitIQ academic scholarship each semester.
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- The scholarship presents financial aid to outstanding students pursuing studies within the sphere of post-Soviet regions’ political processes. Both grades’ master students are eligible to apply and receive 100% of one semester’s tuition fellow based on their merits and academic performance.
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- PolitIQ fellows also have an opportunity to extend the granting period and participate in competition throughout the whole academic year.
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- To apply, you do not necessarily have to be a PSPP student. Prospective students of the program are also welcome to apply.

- The application is open during the whole academic year, what helps to have a longer interval between two application processes: scholarship and the application for the program itself. It allows you to track your enrollment’s progress and manage your admission schedule effectively.
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📮 Still have questions? Do not hesitate to mail us at [email protected]!

On the 20th of February, Lomonosov MSU will hold an Open Day for international students.

There you will have a chance to join lifetime conversations with your desired faculty’s professors and gain first-hand information about this year's admissions. Faculties’ presentations will be available from 1 pm (MSK).
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To register for an event, check the link in the comments below.
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#поступайправильно #поступайивластвуй #деньоткрытыхдверей #поступление

🪐 Watch Jupiter through a vintage telescope in the center of Russia's capital? Attend a classical music concert and read your poetry? There is a place where you can do all of this and which is located in MSU. Meet the MSU Sternberg Astronomical Institute.
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The name of the Institute was given in honor of a Soviet astronomer Pavel Shternberg, who, along with being a scholar, was a talented musician who played several musical instruments and played in a university orchestra. Maybe this was the beginning of the Institute's noteworthy tradition of holding instrumental music concerts right within the walls of the Institute.
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🌕 During the war, Institute's astronomers were observing the Sun's surface to detect solar flares, which affect the quality of radio signals. In Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk during Soviet times), a special "Sun Service" established for this purpose.
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Today, Sternberg Astronomical Institute is the biggest center of astronomical research, with more than 200 researchers working and a space for creative people passionate about studying the universe and enchanted by its mysteries. You can visit Institute's website to find out more about its art life, see photo works of astronomers, and read their poems inspired by the cosmos.

🔭 If you want to follow Plato's advice and turn to astronomy to make your soul turn to other, "upper" worlds, the Sternberg Astronomical Institute is the best place to do so.

MSU-based ESG-laboratory “Sustainable development and ESG-transformations management” has been successfully launched.
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Within the university, the laboratory will be exercising its work on the basis of the MSU Faculty of Economics. It will help students conduct research in green politics and energy transit by bringing on board young specialists working out solutions for sustainable development.
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Earlier this month, the Faculty of Economics performed as a partner of PolitIQ educational project during the round table expert discussion on “Carbon tax in EU and Russia: a driver of change or tool of deterrence” within the framework of 2022 Winter School on energy politics and energy transition held with the support of German-Russian Forum.

We are very happy to announce the launch of MSU’s Faculty of Political Science and Library for Foreign Language joint Lecture center!

Throughout its work, this special project will be bringing together Russian and visiting professors from all over the world, who perform as lecturers of the MSU’s Faculty of Political Science, to share insights about politics, its history, and future through a format of public lectures and discussions.

The first lecture in the Lecture Center’s cycle, «Globalisation and Its Discontents», will be given by an Honorary Professor of the MSU’s Faculty of Political Science, Professor Richard Sakwa. The lecture will deal with current globalization processes and their hidden implications.

The lecture will be held online at 4 pm on Feb 9th. To join the talk, register for the event by following a link in the comments. You can also visit an online translation in the Frankoteque hall of the Library.

We are happy to announce an official ending of the 2022 Winter School “Energy Policy: An (Energy-) Turnaround in the German-Russian Relations?” held by German-Russian Forum, MGIMO and MSU universities with the support of CENTERO Research Association and PolitIQ educational project.
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🌐 During the week, German, Russian and international students have been learning together about ecological initiatives and solutions within the German-Russian cooperation.
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A panel discussion with Russian experts has ended the academic program and dealt with the questions of political aspects of climate change and implications of low-carbon strategies development in the context of Russia and Germany’s socio-economic development. 🧩
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The discussion was moderated by Sc.D., Head of the MSU Public Policy department, Vladimir Yakunin.
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Among the guest speakers who provided their expert opinion on the issue were:
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- Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Security, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO;
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- Alexander Startsev, President, North-West International Centre for Cleaner Production, Professor, International University of Fundamental Studies, UNIDO International Expert;
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- Sergey Roginko, Head of Centre for Ecology and Development – Leading Researcher, Department of Economic Research, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
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- Kirill Degtyarev, Renewable Energy Laboratory, Moscow State University.
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🎓 Intigam Mamedov, Deputy Dean of the MSU’s Faculty of Political Science, congratulated Winter School’s students with their successful completion of the program and strong academic performance. At the end of the official closing ceremony, students were awarded certificates.

What role does business play in the energy transition? And what are the actual realities of Russian and German big companies going green? These questions were a keynote of the “Energy Policy: An (Energy-) Turnaround in the German-Russian Relations?” Winter School third day.
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Starting from lectures on Green Economy by Russian experts Svetlana I. Kodaneva - Leading Researcher, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences - and Alexei Sarapultsev, Graduate of the Faculty of Political Science (Lomonosov MSU), participants of the school moved to a round table conversation with Jan Dresel, Director of the Moscow Office, Hanns-Seidel-Foundation and Tatiana Valyaeva, Energy Secretariat of the Russian-German Energy Dialogue at the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce, moderated by Julia Hofmann, Moscow Office, German-Russian Forum.
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The second part of the panel discussion covered practical problems of introducing financial instruments to promote business. Daria Zhuravleva, from Ltd Green Finance, held a talk on green finance and green certificates.
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The result of the winter school day became a joined group work for sixteen international students and eleven Russian participants to develop their own project and apply theoretical knowledge from Russian and German experience.

We continue to keep you posted on the progress of our "Energy Policy: An (Energy-) Turnaround in the German-Russian Relations?" 2022 Winter School!
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During the second day, participants had a glance at both: business and scientific approaches to tackling issues of climate change and energy transit, raise the questions of the interconnectedness of government and big companies within the sphere of green politics.
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- The guests of the Winter School have presented their expert opinions:
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- Eldar Rakhimov – Head of Process Solution Business Unit at Siemens Energy on Decarbonization at Siemens Energy.
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- Round table "Carbon tax in EU and Russia: engine of development or a curbing tool?" held by two MSU Faculties – Faculty of Political Science and its Public Policy Department and the MSU Faculty of Economics, presents an expert discussion focused on the implications of the carbon tax on changes within the national energy policy.
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- Andreas Kubala – Senior Manager Energy Projects, German Secretariat of the Energy Partnership with Russia at the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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- Ivan Angelovsky – alumni of PolitIQ Post-Soviet Public Policy MA program, gave a talk on the Russian realities of green energy politics.
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- MSU Political Science Faculty's Ph.D. student, Nazym Turganbek, presented on Russia's tools, aims, and expected results related to Russia's low-carbon policies.

2022 Winter School held by German-Russian Forum, MGIMO and MSU universities with the support of CENTERO Research Association and PolitIQ educational project under the auspices of the Russian-German year 2020-2022 “Economics and Sustainable Development” has officially started!
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The aim of the school is to develop an academic and expert dialogue to achieve progress in scientific research, economics and environmental sphere.
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The official opening ceremony saw representatives from the German Embassy in Moscow, German business companies, and participating universities greeting German and Russian participants.

Among them: Beate Grzeski, Minister Plenipotentiary and Permanent Deputy Ambassador of Germany to Russia, Andrea von Knoop, Deputy Chairman of the Board, German-Russian Forum. Honorary President, German-Russian Chamber of Commerce Thomas Bruch, Shareholder, Globus Holding, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, German-Russian Forum, Martin Hoffmann Managing Director, German-Russian Forum, Julia Held, Coordinator of Globus Foundation Russia, Maxim Vilisov – Director of CENTERO Research Association.
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For the next five days students of the “Energy Policy: An (Energy-) Turnaround in the German-Russian Relations?” Winter School will take part in expert discussions, will listen to lectures given by professionals in the fields of business, political science, international relations, and environmental science.

#мгу #зимняяшкола

1. The program's graduates receive two diplomas instead of one since they study at two of Russia's leading universities.
Their first year students spend at Lomonosov MSU and second – at MGIMO University.
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2. The PSPP MA program is taught in English, which means that all our students study politics in a very international company! This year PolitIQ welcomed students from Great Britain, Germany, Japan, China, Canada, and other countries.
Each professional political expert should have a reliable source of expert opinion in every part of the world to get an objective picture, and we know it better then anyone.
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3. Last year the PSPP MA program won 1st place in MSU's contest in the nomination "New educational programs for international citizens implemented in 2021".
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4. To enter the program, you should not necessarily have a background in Political Science. It does not matter if you were not that good at politics until now, cause from now on you will be guided by real professionals.
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5. Each semester PSPP MA students attend lectures given by professors from the world's top universities. Among them are lecturers from Columbia University, University of Oxford, University College London, University of Pennsylvania.

You can always mail us at [email protected] to find out more about the Post-Soviet Public Policy MA program!

What distinguishes the world's best universities? Traditions! Today Lomonosov MSU celebrates its most significant event – University's birthday. This celebration yields many authentic traditions: from preparing a hundred liters of mead to the liturgy at the Universities' Church.
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A bit of history. On the 25th of January in 1755, Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed a decree declaring the establishment of the Moscow University. There is a legend about the University's first curator Ivan Shuvalov, who intentionally delayed the signing of decree to leave it for his mother's upcoming Tatiana Nameday, traditionally taking place on the 25th of January. By doing so, he wanted to present his mother the most epic gift for Tatiana's Day. His plan successfully worked, and since then, Saint Tatiana is also seen as a patroness of students.
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The sweetest tradition – we mean the tradition of making University's rector homemade mead – celebrates its 29th anniversary this year. The idea of standing students the mead came to MSU's rector, Victor Sadovnichiy when he was visiting his good friend Helmut Klein (Rector of Humboldt University). Professors were walking around German University's park when two students approached them, and after greetings suggested rectors in jest to buy them a glass of beer, which was sold nearby. Undeterred, a German professor spent a coin and passed a student a glass of draught beer. I thought to myself: "Well, that is a good form of extracurricular communication with students", - says V. Sadovnichiy.
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Beer, however, does not have such a rich history as it does in Germany. Also, suggesting alcohol to students seemed a bit inappropriate. Then MSU's rector recalled an episode from his youth when he happened to try an original drink made according to an old Russian church recipe. From here was born an idea of a secret recipe and cooking of a traditional birthday drink for MSU students.
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Honey for the mead was brought personally by a Moscow ex-mayor Yury Luzhkov from his apiary. In recent years MSU's rector has brought ingredients from the Moscow region.

What is InteRussia? An internship program for specialists in international relations, political science, and regional studies, implemented under the guidance of MGIMO professionals'.
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What is included? Participants will have a chance to visit official public authority bodies and take part in expert sessions held by universities, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations. The result of an internship is a project of original scientific research.
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Who is eligible to apply? Foreign specialists (without Russian residence) of the age 25-35, with Ph.D. status obtained in the last five years with no affiliation with MGIMO.
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📅 Dates: Mar 21 - May 1 – dates of the first wave at MGIMO. The topic: "Post-Soviet space after the collapse of USSR in a 30-years scope".
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⌛ Deadline: Jan 31

To fill out the application form and learn more about the program, follow the link in our bio.