INSTITUTE OF POLITICS, LAW AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT RUSSIAN STUDIES: POLITICAL RESEARCES OF RUSSIA AND POST-SOVIET STATES MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAM

Form, duration and place of training – full time, 2 years, Moscow Real politics in the post-Soviet States Real -technologies of work in Russia and post- Soviet States Personal contacts with people, who make politics and business in Russia and post-Soviet States

Language of training: Russian and English first year – education in English + intensive studying of Russian second year – teaching and practical training in Russian

we give immersion in real Russian politics You will see what is really happening in Russia. You will learn how it works from ‘the inside’ and will be able to compare the existing concepts and theories about Russia with real practice You will understand the difference between myths about Russia and real processes, which are happening in Russia and post-Soviet States You will get an access to the unique information data bases and technologies of work in Russia and will take part in political researches and campaigns

EDUCATION PROGRAM (BASIC MODULES) The collapse of the bipolar world: transformation of international relationships in post-Soviet States and Russian foreign policy The difficult way to the democracy: political transformation of post-Soviet societies Economic reforms and society in Russia and post-Soviet countries

SPECIAL OFFER The Internet, new media The Internet, new media and protest activities in Russia and post-Soviet States Political myths: the new identity of post-Soviet societies’ construction GR GR and lobbying in Russia: how it works Electoral processes and political technologies: how to win the elections and - keep power Special elective courses special electi ve courses on the culture, history, traditions of Russia and post-Soviet countries. PRACTICAL TRAININGS, PROBATIONS and RESEARCH PROJECTS in the best — information analysis, consulting and research centers of Russia.

Наши партнеры Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM); Consulting agency ‘Nikkolo M’; Centre of –Russian Political Environment (CRPE); Governance and Problem Analysis Center (rusrand.ru); Russian Agency for Development of Information Society (RARIO).

INDIVIDUAL PROBATIONS: in the Central Office of the State Duma of the Russian Federation; in the Federal Agency of the Youth’s Policy Issues; in the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation; in the Moscow Government; in civic and non-commercial organizations

Practice You will have an opportunity of taking part in POLITICAL AND ELECTIONAL CAMPAIGNS of the ruling party and opposition-. Participation in the RESEARCH PROJECTS ‘Eurasian Monitor’, ‘World Internet Project’, in projects of Research Committees ‘Political Sociology’ and ‘Political Region Studies’ of Political Science’s Russian Association, Institute of Technologies in the Sphere of Social Computing of Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities. This program is for those who understand that Russia and the post-Soviet States should be studied in Russia.

Admission tests: the basic theory of political science (an interview). The head of the master’s program: Vladimir S. AVDONIN - Doctor of Politics, Professor Leading Researcher of Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN), specialist of the International Institute of Research in Policy and the Humanities, co- chairman of Research Committee on Political Regional Science of the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) Our contacts: Elena V. BRODOVSKAYA - deputy director of Institute of Politics, Law and Social Development of SMSUH, Doctor of Politics, Professor,