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Sergei Serdyukov, the former technical director of Nord Stream 2, believes that the main obstacle to Russia’s progressive development is the lack of quality managers, those who can take responsibility for making important strategic decisions and avoid making mistakes when putting them into practice. Is this really the case? How can we make serious top managers of promising young people with leadership skills? Forpost publishes excerpts from Sergey Serdyukov’s commencement lecture “Management as the main problem of the 21st century”, which he delivered in St. Petersburg, at the ”Young Leaders of Science-2020” forum.

They presented their developments to the judgment of experts from major Russian and foreign companies, such as GEOTECH Seismic, SIBUR, PhosAgro, and Schneider Electric.

Russia and Thailand: what is common between these allegedly so different countries? Meanwhile, historical relations of the two states are much firmer than it is usually believed.

The International Competence Center in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO is holding a large-scale youth forum.

What will the global energy of tomorrow? What changes does the mining industry and oil and gas complex need in order to minimize the burden on ecosystems? Is it possible to achieve the goals of sustainable development proclaimed by the UN and at the same time to provide humanity with minerals? The participants of the large-scale International online forum “Advanced Engineering Competencies - the Future of the Mining Industry”, which included representatives of UNESCO, the Russian Ministry of Energy, higher educational institutions, major specialized companies and professional communities, tried to find answers to these and other questions.

Despite the pandemic, Russia continues to hold educational exhibitions abroad, attracting foreign students to its universities. What are the consequences for the future if we stop addressing this issue today?

He articulated his initiative at the conference dedicated to the creation of an international unified system of competences for specialists in the mineral complex and raw materials complex.

Yemen’s catastrophic situation has not been out of the news for long. Salah Al-Mufti, a graduate of St. Petersburg Mining University, said how the ongoing conflict impacted the Yemeni petroleum industry and where the future industry specialists are trained now.

Uranium is mined in over 20 countries worldwide. Namibia is - based on uranium reserves - ranked sixth globally, which makes cooperation with the state a matter of particular interest to Russia. Lydia Kuwilileni Mwatyony, a graduate of St. Petersburg Mining University, shares an opinion on how Russia can be useful to her homeland.

What do Russians think about Turkey? The first thing that comes to mind is all-inclusive resort vacations, followed far behind by the country’s ambitions in world politics. However, the Republic of Turkey has unexpectedly revealed a new industry it is about to develop…