The Department of International Relations and International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism of National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) is holding a joint session of Eurasian Online Seminar and China seminar. Our guest on Friday, November 27, 2020 at 16:00 Moscow time will be a renowned Russian expert on international relations Fedor Lukyanov. The topic of his talk is “Russia — EU: How we learned to stop worrying and love the split.”
The seminar will be held in English via Zoom. To get access to the conference, please register here.
About the speaker:
Fyodor Lukyanov is a world-renowned expert on Russian foreign policy and a famous journalist. He holds a degree in German Linguistics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology (1991). He currently serves as Research Professor at Higher School of Economics in Moscow and Editor of Russia in Global Affairs — one of Russia’s most influential IR journals. The aim of the journal is to provide a platform for Russian as well as international experts and politicians for discussing challenges facing the world nowadays. Mr. Lukyanov is also a Research Director at the Valdai Discussion Club – a Russian think tank where President Putin often speaks — and Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy – an influential Russian non-governmental public association. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.