Council of Europe Secretary General Comes to MGIMO

Council of Europe Secretary General Comes to MGIMO

19 October 2020

October 19th, MGIMO welcomed the Secretary General of the Council of Europe M.Pejcinovic-Buric during her official visit to Russia. The guest met with the management of the University and participated in the launch of modules on international human rights.

MGIMO was the first place visited by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe M.Pejcinovic-Buric during her visit to Russia.

During the meeting at MGIMO, the sides discussed how to expand their cooperation through the European Studies Institute, which offers advanced training courses to Russian civil servants. MGIMO faculty members and management described to the visiting delegation the law, politics and economics programs developed by the European Studies Institute to meet the training and retraining needs of civil servants and representatives of corporations.

The meeting was attended by the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia T.Moskalkova, the Director of the Department of All-European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry N.Kobrinets, the Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights and Deputy Minister for Justice M. Galperin, the Secretary of the Russian Civic Chamber L.Mikheeva, the First Vice-Rector of MGIMO G.Tolstopyatenko and the Director of the European Studies Institute T.Shashikhina.

This year, the courses are held in a hybrid format: in person and remotely. A portion of students will attend lessons online.