How did Indian spiritual thought influence Soviet unofficial art? This is what Dmitry Kozlov, senior lecturer of the Department of Philology at HSE University-St Petersburg, devoted his online lecture to. He told students and specialists of the School of Liberal Studies and Media at UPES University (Dehradun) about the cultural dialogue between India and the Soviet Union.

In early March, the representatives of HSE University-St Petersburg organised a series of entry competitions for applicants from China. The exams were held in three cities—Beijing, Nanjing and Chengdu—at the Russian Cultural Centre (RCC) in Beijing and leading Chinese universities.

The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre hosted the fifth annual CIBA conference, organised by professors and students of the Master's programme 'Arts and Culture Management' at HSE University-St Petersburg. More than 300 participants, including students, creative experts, entrepreneurs, and representatives of cultural institutions, attended the event.

Students of HSE University-St Petersburg can go on exchange studies abroad not only during the bachelor's degree. Daria Orekhova, a 2nd-year student of the Master's programme 'Media Production and Media Analytics', spent the autumn semester at one of the best universities in China. Read on to find out how the academic mobility at the Beijing Normal University went, what inspired the student to develop her own online course and how travelling changes the habitual way of seeing the world.

The delegation from HSE University-St Petersburg headed by director Anna Tyshetskaya visited more than ten universities in Japan to strengthen research and academic cooperation. HSE representatives met the heads of the country's leading universities, among which were Soka University, Tokai University, Sophia University, Hitotsubashi University, Hosei University, Osaka University, Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo University Of Foreign Studies and others. Among the priority areas of cooperation are humanitarian and Asian and African research, online training and programmes of academic exchange.

A delegation from HSE University-St Petersburg headed by Evgeny Zelenev, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, has visited the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies (TSUOS). The meeting marked a new stage of cooperation development between the leading educational institutions in Russia and Uzbekistan.