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Karin Kneissl, the head of the G.O.R.K.I. Center at SPbSU, who served as the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Austria from 2017 to 2019, gave an assembly lecture “Permanent Sovereignty over Resources: The Creation of OPEC” at the St. Petersburg Empress Catherine II Mining University. Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, introducing the guest to the audience, called her “a person who was not afraid to challenge the ideology that has become dominant in the European Union in recent years”.

Rectors Vladimir Litvinenko of the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University and Hanoi University of Mining and Geology Hai Tran Thanh signed an agreement on international co-operation. In particular, the parties agreed to join efforts in such areas as training competent personnel for the mineral resources sector of the two countries, increasing academic mobility, increasing publication activity and a number of others.

In early April, a representative delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe. Forpost has already written about the part of the trip that was devoted to familiarizing with the mining industry of this southern African country. Today - a detailed story about its higher education system.

In early April, a representative delegation from St. Petersburg Mining University paid a working visit to the Republic of Zimbabwe. The main objectives of the visit were to get acquainted with the higher education system of this South African state, the state of affairs in the field of geological exploration and subsoil use, and to identify practical ways of cooperation in the format of a roadmap for the medium term.

Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University was paid a working visit by Mrs. Karin Kneissl, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria.

Professor Alfred Nordmann of the Darmstadt Technical University (Germany) visited St. Petersburg Mining University. The scientist was brought to St. Petersburg by the initiative to hold an international conference on the philosophical understanding of technological progress at the oldest technical university in Russia. The idea has already been supported by leading scientists from the University of Padua (Italy), the University of Groningen (Netherlands), the University of South Carolina (USA), and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University

Scientists from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and Shiraz University held the first teleconference, during which they discussed the roadmap for the upcoming research of joint research groups. Their results will be concrete developments affecting a wide range of knowledge areas - increasing mining safety, developing renewable energy sources, improving the efficiency of wastewater treatment and much more.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin put the new wintering complex of Vostok station into trial operation via video link. It is 1,200 kilometres from the nearest coast and is located on a lifeless ice plateau at an altitude of over three and a half kilometres.

Prince of Cambodia Ravichak Norodom paid a working visit to Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. The main topic of his meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko was the search for mutually beneficial areas of partnership between our countries. First of all, it is about co-operation in such spheres as science, education and culture.