News
29.12.2011
As Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization nears, and regionalization efforts intensify, Alexandra Koval, Senior Lecturer at St. Petersburg State University (SPSU), looked at the phenomenon of forum shopping for dispute settlement during her Vi fellowship, December 5-16. Read more...
20.12.2011
On the 14th of December, professors and students of the World Economy Department took part in the conference “APEC – 2012: Opportunities and Prospects”. In one of the conference panels Dr. Ludmila Popova presented a report “Direct Investments of China in Russian economy”.22.11.2011
On the 14th of November, the 3rd year students of the World Economy Department visited the automobile plant ‘Nissan’. The presentation of the NISSAN strategy in Russia was followed by discussions. Then the students visited workshops and saw the whole cycle of car production.15.11.2011
On the 9th of November, the students of the 4th course visited the company ‘Silovye mashiny – LMZ’. LMZ is the biggest power machine-building enterprise in Russia, which carries out designing, manufacturing and after-sales service of steam, hydraulic and gas turbines of different power. The students visited 3 workshops and the museum of the plant.21.10.2011
The student of the Master Program ‘International Trading System’, Ekaterina Efanova, participated in the Summer Academy of World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland. The program duration was 5 weeks. First two weeks were dedicated to international investment agreements. The third module examined the WTO rules. The fourth module focused on environmental problems and their impact on trade. On the final week the students examined the questions of political economy in trade. After the graduation of the program all participants got certificates and disks with studying materials.14.10.2011
Two students of the World Economy Department, Angelika Ivanova and Pavel Potapov, did their scientific internship at the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, in September, 2011. They did the research on international marketing under the supervision of Prof. Kerstin Pezoldt.26.07.2011
In October, 13-14, 2011, the Economic Faculty, St. Petersburg State University, organises the International Conference 'Economic theory and commercial performance: global challenges', which is being held in honor of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Professor Sergei Tjulpanov. More information...
04.07.2011
In May, 2011, students of the World Economy Department visited companies and business organisations in Germany. More details...
24.06.2011
On the 23 of July was held the presentation of President of the European Association for Social Latin American Studies, Director of the Institute of Iberoamerica, University of Salamanca (Spain), Professor Miguel Carrera Troyano. The focus of the presentation was on problems of MERCOSUR development. This event was held under the WTO Chair.
22.06.2011
On the 21 of June, professor Sergey Sutyrin participated in the second WTO Chairs Annual Conference in Geneva. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said that: «By providing financial support to universities to undertake research, teaching, curriculum development and outreach activities, we seek to fortify capacities and efforts aimed, ultimately, at strengthening the ability of governments to identify, articulate, promote and defend their trade policy interests».
21.06.2011
Professor Lomagin N.A. participated in the TV show "Open Studio" on the 5th channel on the subject: "Nobody is forgotten?" in Russian. You can watch this show here...
16.06.2011
Dr. Ludmila Popova participated in the TV show "Mirror" on "100 channel". You can watch this video here...
09.06.2011
Dr. Olga Trofimenko and Dr. Viktor Lukashevich gave an interview on the radio "Echo Moscow" in St. Petersburg on "the WTO Chair". You can listen to this interview in Russian here...
07.06.2011
Dr. Olga Trofimenko gave an interview for the "First Internet- TV" on the topic of "The price will grow and won't go back". You can listen to this interview in Russian here...
Prof. Alexander Pogorletsky gave an interview for the "First Internet- TV" on the topic of "Can Greece bring down the economies of Europe?" You can listen to the interview in Russian here...
06.06.2011
A student of the World Economy Department, Anastasia Emelianova participated in the university competition of international programs in 2010-2011 and she spent her ninth semester at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
01.06.2011
A Ph. D. student, Shishkina Olga shares with us her experience of Erasmuc Mundus Action 2 programme.
"I have known about the program Erasmus Mundus Action 2 - Triple from the web-site of St. Petersburg State University. This program is a project funded by the European Union and provides the opportunity for students, graduate students, doctoral students and staff of the Russian higher schools to undergo training at European partner universities. For applying the graduate students had to choose three high school from the list of universities - participants (my choice was based on the availability of training programs in English), to obtain prior Admission letter (stating consent to become a teacher supervisor for the period of probation), and send documents to the University of Turku who is the coordinator of the program. I would also like to say that all this must be done in advance - in my case was to accept applications until the end of August 2010 and the beginning - February 2011.
20.05.2011
Professor Sergey Sutyrin expressed his opinion for the ‘First news' on the topic of "Russia can play its role in choosing the head of the IMF". You can read more hear in Russian...
04.05.2011
The Journal of the Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany) published an article about the project conducted jointly with the Department of World Economy, St. Petersburg State University. In the project participated Dr. Alexandra Koval. You can read article on pages 36-37 of the journal....
03.05.2011
From April, 1, 2011 the Department of World Economy has started a research project entitled: "External factors of Russian entrepreneurship in the competitive global environment"
01.05.2011
The conference "COMPETITION AS A FACTOR OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT" was held at the Economic Faculty of St Petersburg StateUniversity on 22 of April 2011. The Department of World Economy led asection "International Competition: Specifity, Strategies,Facilitating Mechanism". More information...
20.04.2011
On April, 18, 2011 the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation awarded Prof. Nikita A. Lomagin for many years of fruitful work in the development and improvement of the educational process, a significant contribution to training of highly skilled specialists.
19.04.2011
Prof. Nikita A. Lomagin was invited by Friedrich Ebert Foundation to Riga to held a lecture on the activities of the NKVD in Leningrad in 1939-1945.
15.04.2011
On April, 1-12, 2011 students of the MA programme ‘International Trading System' participated in the study tour held by the UNCTAD on trade and trade-related issues in international organizations based in Geneva and also visited Trade Mission of the Russian Federation and World Trade Institute in Bern. More information...
09.04.2011
On April, 7-8, 2011, Dr. Alexandra Koval participated in the international symposium "BRICs: emerging potential of Brazil", which took place at the University of Salamanca (Spain), with a report on "Russia and Brazil in the international trading system: contemporary perspectives". More information about the symposium can be found here ...
06.04.2011
The Russian news agency ‘ROSBALT’ published interviews on "Restrictions on food imports from Japan” with Prof. Sutyrin (in Russian).
02.04.2011
Angelica Ivanova and Pavel Potapov have won in the competition among 2-nd and 3rd year students of the World Economy Department to conduct research on international marketing at the Economics Faculty of the Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany) The winners will be given scholarships for one month covering travel and accommodation expenses by the host country and our partner University.
24.03.2011
The WTO Chair of St. Petersburg State University has broadcasted series of interviews on the radio ‘Echo of Moscow’ in St. Petersburg on the following topics (in Russian):
- "The WTO Chair: EU, WTO, Russia" with Dr. Trofimenko and Prof. Pogorletskiy
- "The WTO Chair" with Dr. Trofimenko and Dr. Lukashevich
21.03.2011
On March, 21-22, professors of the Department of World Economy participated in the seminar ‘International aid for development’ organized by the World Bank in Moscow. View photos...
11.03.2011
The 3rd-year students visited a famous Russian brewery ‘Baltika’. Read more....
11.03.2011
On March, 11, students of the MA programme ‘International trading system’ participated in a videoconference with the presentation of the Report on Trade and Development hold by UNCTAD. View the report here ...
21.02.2011
In St. Petersburg there was a discussion on cooperation between Finland and North-West regions in the development of the Arctic. Prof. Nikita A. Lomagin took an active part in the discussion. Read more ...
10.02.2011
07.02.2011
Prof. Nikita A. Lomagin participated in series of interviews on radio and TV (in Russian) devoted to the siege of Leningrad. Interviews can be heard here...TV
shows can be found here...
04.02.2011
On February, 11, will be held the round table for students ‘Mexico in the Global Economy: BRIC+M?”. The reports will be presented by the graduate of the Mexican Business School, M. Arellanes «What can Mexico learn from BRIC’s?», students of the World Economy Department V. Zhemerov and V. Petrov «Mexico in the Contemporary Global Economy: Challenges and Trends”, and Master students O. Kuzmina and K. Savinov «Mexico and BRIC: Trade and Investment Policy”. The working language is English.
20.01.2011
The Russian news agency ‘ROSBALT’ published articles and interviews on ‘Trade wars’ with Prof. Sutyrin and on ‘Russia’s accession to the WTO’ with Dr. Kapustkin (in Russian)
19.01.2011
The WTO Chair of St. Petersburg State University has broadcasted series of interviews on the radio ‘Echo of Moscow’ in St. Petersburg on the following topics (in Russian):
‘The CIS in the international trading system’ with Prof. Krotov and Prof. Lomagin‘Russia’s accession to the WTO. China in the global economy’ with Prof. Lomagin, Dr. Popova, and Dr. Trofimenko
‘Brazil and the WTO’ with Dr. Koval and Dr. Trofimenko
'Russia’s accession to the WTO' with Prof. Lomagin and Dr. Trofimenko
'Revolutions in Arab countries. Their economic impacts' with Dr. Trofimenko and Dr. Sherov-Ignatiev
08.12.2010
Dr. Kapustkin and students of the World Economy Department, St. Petersburg State University participated in the TV debate ‘Does Russia need the WTO?’
15.10.2010
On October, 14-15, 2010 was held the International conference dedicated to the 70-anniversary of the Faculty of Economics, St. Petersburg State University: «Economic Modernization: Problems and Prospects». More information...13.10.2010
On September 30 the UNCTAD Virtual Institute organized a videoconference for several Russian universities. Students of the Master programme "International Trading System" participated in this videoconference on UNCTAD's Technology and Innovation Report. More information...
24.09.2010
In summer 2010 our Master student participated in the summer school of 'American Institute on Political and Economical Systems'.
01.09.2010
The Department of World Economy has launched the Information Bulletin ‘MIREK’ (in Russian). ‘MIREK’ reflects all important events of the Department and news for students, alumni and staff. More information…
01.09.2010
From 2012 the Department of World Economy will launch Bachelor's programmers in 'International Economic Relations' and 'International Business'.
20.07.2010
The Department of World Economy has succefully completed its International Summer School in Russian Business. More information on the site of the programme...
23.04.2010Students of MA Programme "International Trading System" participated in the Study tour organized by UNCTAD Virtual Institute. More information...
09.04.2010
From 09.02.2010 till 09.04.2010 students of Specialist's and Master's programmes of the World Economy Department were undergoing their practical trainings at the Ministry of Economic Development, Russian Federation.
12.02.2010
The Department of World Economy, St. Petersburg State University, has been awarded the WTO Chair. The Department has become one of the 14 Institutes all over the world selected by the WTO Chair Programme. The aim of this Programme is to assist national academic institutions in providing students with a deeper understanding of trade policy issues. More information on the WTO press-release…
15.12.2009
The 5th video-conference dedicated to UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2009 was hold in the economic faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University. More information...
