Elmira Imamkulieva

Starting from the new academic year, significant changes are expected in the Master’s programme ‘Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia,’ now renamed ‘Modern Asian and MENA Studies.’ Originally the first master’s programme in Russia offered fully in English, the programme has been run for 12 years by HSE University’s Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs.

Students of the "Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia" program explored new projects and internship opportunities during their visit to the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).

On December 2nd, 2024, “Chinese Forum: Dialogues of the Wise” took place, which was attended by Imamkulieva Elmira Elmanovna, the academic head of the Master's Program “Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia”.

Since 2022, HSE University and the Southern Federal University (SFedU) have been implementing a joint bachelor's programme ‘The Caucasus and the Middle East in the System of Regional and International Relations.’ Education takes place in Rostov-on-Don, with HSE professors mostly involved in the process remotely. In late April 2024, some of the top students from the programme were invited for a week to HSE University, where they participated in various educational and scientific events.

HSE University’s Online Campus presents a new course—‘Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice in the 21^st Century’. Elmira Imamkulieva, creator of the course and Senior Lecturer at the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, explains how Islamic financing is more reliable than venture capital and why the green bonds common in the Arab world are the investment of the future.

On the 8th of April, an international student conference “Iranian foreign policy: the potential of Iran’s cooperation with Russia” was held, presenting the results of the project under the guidance of Dr. Mehdi Sanaei and Elmira Imamkulieva.

On December 21, 2022, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University held a roundtable discussion on “2022 Outcomes: Turkey, Iran, Central Asian Countries: Growing Potential of Influence”.

On December 2, the round table of young scientists “Economic Potential of Turkey and Iran: Opportunities for Broadening Interaction with the Russian Federation in the Middle Term” was held within the framework of the conference “The world majority in the contemporary international realities: from fragmentation to new institutionalization”.

On December 2, 2022, School of Regional Studies Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University held the session "The Middle East in the Confrontation between the West and Russia" within the framework of the 4th International Conference “The world majority in the contemporary international realities: from fragmentation to new institutionalization”.

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 the International Round Table “Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice in the XXI Century” was organized by the School of Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University.

On December 7, 2021 the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University within the framework of the permanent online seminars «Contemporary Area Studies», organized a meeting with Farhad Ibragimov, the expert of Valdai International Discussion Club, Anton Baklanov, researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Alexander Kuznetsov, visiting lecturer at the School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University.

In April, the Teach for HSE Project hosted an online seminar, ‘International Virtual Exchange in Your Classroom: No Visa Needed’. Seminar participants discussed the 2020-2021 Russian-Japanese Student International Research Programme, ‘Northeast Asia since 2012: Political and Economic Analysis’, which was held jointly by the School of International Regional Studies of the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs and the Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration of Akita International University (Japan).

On April, 15, 2021 The School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University together with the Russian Middle East Association, Provincial Youth Assembly Pakistan and Kateb Educational and Cultural  Association in Russian Federation hold a round table “The Role of Youth in Achieving the 17 UN SDGs: Afghanistan – Egypt – Pakistan – Russia”.

On Saturday, November 28, within the framework of the on-going online seminar “Contemporary Area Studies” the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of HSE University organized a discussion with Ramezan Ali Marvi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Allame Tabatab'i University, on the theme “Islamic Banking in Theory: Banks and the Real Economy”.

On Tuesday, October 27, an online meeting was held with Svetlana Babenkova, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, IVRAN, Ph.D., MBA. The discussion was organized  as part of a series of online expert seminars “Contemporary Area Studies” of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, with the assistance of the Russian Middle East Association.