Why Choose ‘Russian Studies’ at HSE?
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Russian Studies is a new Master’s programme offered by the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences. The programme aims to train professionals with both a knowledge of the country’s rich history and cultural heritage, and the ability to comprehend its contemporary reality, with its achievements and problems, successes and challenges.
The programme aspires to help students coming from diverse backgrounds — Western and Asian, and certainly Russians as well — to learn to understand and analyze how Russia lives and works. The students will have an unrivalled opportunity to try to unwrap at least some of this country’s mysteries.