ASEAN Centre in MGIMO-University the MFA of Russia

On June 7, 2022, the MGIMO hosted a working meeting of Vice-Rector for Science and Research Dr. Andrey Baykov and the ASEAN Center at MGIMO experts with a delegation of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Moscow, designed to discuss the educational cooperation issues between the university and leading educational institutions and government agencies of Indonesia.

On June 3, an Indonesian delegation from a non-governmental organization Asian-African Youth Government (AAYG), led by its President Mr. Saddam Al Jihad Respiratori paid a visit to the ASEAN Centre at MGIMO.

According to the results of the presidential elections in the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986), was proclaimed a winner on May 9, 2022. In his new interview to Mr. Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, Dr. Victor Sumsky, Senior Expert of the ASEAN Centre, shared his opinion on how this event would affect domestic affairs in the Philippines and the Russia-Philippines relations.

On April 29, the 7th Vietnam Day was jointly organized by ASEAN Centre in MGIMO and the Vietnamese Students’ community. This year, the Vietnam Day was held for the first time in two universities — in Saint Petersburg State University and in MGIMO University.

From April 24 to April 29, a number of events in the framework of “Vietnam Cross City Days in MGIMO and Saint Petersburg State University” were held by the initiative of the ASEAN Centre in MGIMO and the Ho Chi Minh Institute of Saint Petersburg State University. This format is aimed to extend academic and educational cooperation between the leading centers of Asian studies in Russia, and to establish contacts between Russian students studying the Vietnamese language and Vietnamese students living and studying in Russia.

On April 14, in the framework of the international conference "Digital International Relations", the ASEAN Centre held a session devoted to the prospects for cooperation between Russia and ASEAN in the digital area.