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Professor Alexey Maslov: “This Course Is Like a Lego Building, It Gives All Essential Bricks for Career Success in Asian World”
In the second semester of the current year, ICEF saw the start of the new course Business and Management in Global Context: China and Asia. Here’s Professor Alexey Maslov, D.Sc. (History), Director at Moscow State University Institute of Asian and African Studies, about the newly started course, its hands-on nature, and why we started it.
ICEF Student Georgy Khvatkin Wins Russian National Combat Sambo Championship! Congratulations!
On 21 February 2025, the town of Penza witnessed the completion of the National Combat Sambo Championship U-20. The final stage in national team selection, it was participated by +550 male and female juniors who competed for the right to represent Russia on global area at World Sambo Championship 2025 to be held in Indonesia. The gold medal in 98 kg combat sambo was won by Georgy Khvatkin, who earlier won gold at the World Cadet, Youth and Junior Sambo Championship 2024 and is currently in his first year of ICEF International Bachelor’s Programme in Economics and Finance.
ICEF Students Share Experience From China’s SWUFE
In early February, our teaching and administrative staff met with those of ICEF students who are currently in RIEM SWUFE (Research Institute in Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China) studying for a double degree in economics and finance. The meeting involved also those who went to SWUFE for a semester-long exchange that started in September 2024. Convened to discuss the delivery of both the double-degree and exchange programmes, the meeting has produced a summary of issues to be brought to the attention of those who are interested in studying in China.
Academic Mobility Applications Call Open: Summer Schools and Fall Semester 2025
In the run-up to the 2025-26 fall semester academic exchange, the team of ICEF International Administrative Department met with students seeking study-abroad experience. Here are the exchange opportunities available, the documentation package required and how to get it right.
Pavel Smirnov, Member of the ICEF Class of 2024: From first CV to banking job
In this interview, Pavel Smirnov, who earned his bachelor’s in 2024, talks about his unfolding career. Currently a Sales Specialist & Trader at Raiffeisen Bank Institutional Clients, Pavel shares his experience and emphasizes things to pay attention to while a student for a successful career start.
A Glimpse into ICEF Winter Examination Session: New Year’s Carnival
ICEF has a good tradition of encouraging its students to sit their first winter examination, Accounting, dressed in fancy New Year’s outfits.
ICEF Grad Sofia Salyamova Wins Student Research Paper Competition 2024
Sofia Salamova, who graduated from ICEF in 2024, authors a paper that won top prize in HSE Student Research Paper Competition in the category “Best Finance Research Paper by Master’s Students and Graduates 2024”. Here’s Sofia about what inspired her to do her research, supervised by Associate Professor of ICEF Vladimir Sokolov, how it went, and why it is important to be able to “explain your research to your grandma”.
Vietnam-Born Thao My Tran, ICEF Graduate 2022: “Through Thorns to the Stars”
Thao My Tran, or “simply My” as the Vietnam-born member of the ICEF class of 2022 introduces herself, is 22. My lives and works in Moscow. Here’s why she was able to enroll in ICEF at 16, excelling academically while working a job at a bank and in ICEF Laboratory of Financial Economics and competing in case championships.
ICEF Class of 2024 – Now Master’s Students at Warwick Business School
The bachelor’s class of 2024. Where are they now? Sofia Salamova, Daria Kostenkova and Anna Bogomazova chose to pursue a master’s. Here are their impressions and experience of studying the Master’s in Finance at Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick.
ICEF Student Dmitry Filippov: My Exchange Trip to China Has Been a Unique Intercultural Experience
Dmitry Filippov, who is in his fourth year of BSc Economics and Finance, was excused from classes in the campus in Pokrovsky Boulevard for a period of three months. The reason was his exchange studies with Shanghai University under the three-month exchange programme between schools in Russia and China. Here’s Dmitry’s impressions and takeaways from his experience of international communication.