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A Day in the Life of a MGIMO Student


Watch this webinar with Yandex Market CEO Maxim Grishakov, who is also a member of the SGIA Advisory Board. Mr. Grishakov generously shared his views on choosing economics and finance as your field of study and future profession during an online discussion moderated by SGIA Dean Mikhail Troitskiy and Associate Professor of Finance Vasiliy Tkachev. He offered firsthand experience from a leader of a major Russian IT company whose successful career in business has spanned three decades and under whose direction Yandex Market has substantially increased its market share as a free online service for the selection of goods.

Dr. Andrey Baykov, MGIMO University Vice President for Research and Global Engagement, outlines the reasons for choosing international politics as your undergraduate major and MGIMO as your destination for top-notch liberal arts education

Dr. Maria Shibkova, Lecturer in History and International Politics at the School and a specialist in Mediterreanean security, explains how her region of focus can offer important insights into the current state of world politics and future scenarios

Dr. Mikhail Troitskiy, MGIMO SGIA Dean (2017–2022), lays out the reasons to choose our School for those who are thrilled by international politics, business and finance

Polina Smolenskaya (class of 2020) speaks from her heart about why she thinks joining MGIMO was the right decision

Dean Troitskiy addresses the 2020 graduating cohort of SGIA students

How does history play out at critical junctures? Can you study or teach history in a completely impartial way? These and other exciting questions were addressed in a conversation between the world renowned Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis and faculty members from leading universities in Moscow that SGIA helped organize.

The MGIMO School of Government and International Affairs presented its English-medium programs in International Affairs, Politics, and Government. MGIMO Vice Rector Andrey Baykov, SGIA Dean Mikhail Troitskiy, Deputy Dean Anastasia Solomentseva, and Professor Christopher Korten discussed undergraduate training in English at MGIMO and the opportunities that MGIMO English-medium programs — undergraduate and graduate — provide to their students.