Moscow State Institute of International Relations

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Moscow State Institute of International Relations
МГИМО Университет
Official logo of MGIMO-University
Established 14 October 1944
Type Public
President Anatoly V. Torkunov
Staff 1,100
Undergraduates 4,500
Location Moscow, Russia
Website http://www.mgimo.ru

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) (Russian: Московский государственный институт международных отношений (Университет) МИД России, often abbreviated МГИМО, MGIMO) is the diplomatic school of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. It is the oldest and the best-known school of Russia for preparing specialists in International relations and Diplomacy.

MGIMO has a reputation for being elitist (for example, it is usually considered common knowledge in post-USSR countries that, at least during the USSR times, admission to MGIMO was mostly reserved to children of the Party and government nomenklatura). Many of its current students are from families of political, economic and intellectual elites in Russia. It is also known for having one of the best teaching team in Europe, many of whom were ambassadors or ministers.

MGIMO is considered one of the top four leaders-preparing institutions representing three different political systems in the world: Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Yale Law School in the US, Sciences Po in France, and MGIMO in Russia. Another top academic institution for comparison is the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies located in Geneva.

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[edit] History

MGIMO was founded on 14 October 1944, when the USSR Council of People's Commissars reorganised the School of International Relations of the Moscow State University into an autonomous institute. Among the "founding fathers" of MGIMO were such renowned Russian scientists, as Yevgeny Tarle, Georgy Frantsov and Sergey Krylov, one of the authors of the UN Charter

The first MGIMO admission comprised 200 students. Initially MGIMO consisted of three Schools: The School of International Relations, The School of Economics and The School of Law. In 1954 MGIMO was integrated with one of the oldest Russian institutes – the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, the successor of the famous Lasarevsky College, after which the Department of Oriental Studies was established.

[edit] Institution

Today MGIMO has six faculties and four institutes:

  • School of International Relations (Diplomacy)
  • School of International Law
  • School of International Economic Relations
  • School of Political Science
  • School of International Journalism
  • School of International Business and Business Administration
  • Institute of European Law
  • International Institute of Administration
  • Institute of Foreign Economic Relations
  • International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy
  • Preparatory Training Department
  • Department of Faculty Development

MGIMO provides training in the fields of international relations, political science, global economy, law, management, journalism and public relations to 4,500 undergraduate students as well as graduate researchers. The faculty of about 1,100 includes more than 150 professors (holding a "Doctor of Sciences" degree), more than 400 holders of "Candidate of Sciences" degree, 300 associate professors, as well as over two dozen full and correspondent members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and various specialised Russian and international academies, nine Merited scientists of Russia.

The MGIMO-University library contains over 700 000 volumes in books and magazines in Russian and more than 30 foreign languages. The library also includes the Museum of Rare Books which boasts a collection of 21 000 unique volumes.

Famous MGIMO alumni include President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Russia’s Ministers of Foreign Affais Sergei Lavrov, and Andrei Kozyrev, OSCE Secretary General and foreign minister of Slovakia Ján Kubiš, Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova. For more information about MGIMO alumni visit List of MGIMO alumni

[edit] Student life

The university is famous for its students' activity. There are 4 main student's organisations active at the university:

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Coordinates: 55°40′20″N 37°29′13″E / 55.67222°N 37.48694°E / 55.67222; 37.48694

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