Application Deadline

21 May 2012

The application deadline for September 2012 enrollment.

Meet the family leading Putin's opposition

Russia’s Dzyadko Family: Brothers In Arms (Newsweek Magazine)

Thousands of protesters joined a march of Russian writers

NYT: A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March

Mikhail Khodorkovsky about anti-Putin protests

The famous prisoner writes in the Times Magazine: "Russia's Courts of Injustice: Why Only Protesters Pose a Threat to Putin's Rule".

Testimonials

The Kazan Module

The Kazan Module offered by the IMARES program confers upon the student a flexible opportunity which allows each individual to enhance their own personal interest in the region. While intensive in duration, each compilation of professional experts offers the students of the seminar a personalized opportunity to seek further research in their chosen field or perhaps to expand into a previously unknown topic.

Russian and Eurasian Studies: MA Programs and More

If you would like to study in Russia, study abroad in general or, more specifically, get a Master's degree abroad, look at these programs. They are all MA in English taught in Russia. These are multidisciplinary MA programs for those who want to become leaders in the modern globalized world.

Kazan Module - 2012

May 5, 2012

From 6 to 19 May a group of IMARES and MARCA students will spend in Kazan following courses in Islam and empire and ethnicity and culture in Tatarstan.

If you are applying to enroll in September 2012

April 29, 2012

Useful information, MA in Russian Culture and the Arts

As you know, the application submission deadline for all three MA programs is 30 April 2012. However, the schedule of the admission committees meetings allows to submit pending materials including recommendation letters by 4 May (IMARES), 5 May (ENERPO) and 10 May (MARCA). An online application tool is available on this site.

Danish government support for study in our programs

April 20, 2012

Energy Politics in Eurasia, Useful information

We would like to draw the attention of Danish students to this availability: SU — Danish government support for students webpage.

Downloadable IMARES syllabi

April 19, 2012

To understand better what we teach in our international programs, you can download some IMARES sample syllabi: Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Comparative Political Economy after Communism, Russian Foreign Policy. Sample syllabi are available on the first pages of every program. If you would like to see more syllabi, please write to imares@eu.spb.ru.

Edward Lucas on Russia: the five books interview

April 15, 2012

Edward Lucas of The Economist talks about the roots of putinism and the history of Russia. It is a «five books interview» where, among other recent notable releases, he discusses the book by the former EUSP and now Cambridge professor Alexander Etkind «Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience».

Sample MARCA syllabi on this site

April 13, 2012

Alumni activities, MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies

You can now feel more of MARCA by looking at the syllabi of these courses:
St Petersburg in Russian Literature, The Political Culture of the Russian Revolution, Unofficial Late Soviet Culture.

The Real and Unreal City (a chapter on Saint Petersburg from Marshal Berman’s book «All That Is Solid Melts Into Air»)

April 9, 2012

Student essays and publications

The student essay section of the course «Russian media, Culture and Society» now features students' reflections on the chapter «The Real and Unreal City». This is a famous piece of academic writing about Saint Petersburg from Marshal Berman’s book «All That Is Solid Melts Into Air».

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Curriculum

Would I need to select any mandatory courses? If so, which classes would I need to take?

There are no mandatory courses. EUSP is the only university in Russia offering the tutorial style of teaching. Resident students are free to choose from 3 to 5 courses out of 7–8 per semester. Credits for one course per semester can be transferred from the Russian-language programs in history, sociology etc or between the international programs.