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On September 1st, a new season of the open Student Research Paper Competition (SRPC) started. This competition is aimed at developing the potential of university students who are interested in academic activities. Students, as well as 2023 graduates of Russian and foreign universities, can submit their papers for the competition until October 15^th, 2023. This year SRPC turns 20 years old, throughout the competition’s history, Vadim Radaev, HSE University’s First Vice Rector, has been the chair of the organising committee. In today’s interview, he talks about the history of the competition and the key stages in its development.

Every year, approximately 25 languages ​​disappear from the world's linguistic mosaic, which contains more than 7,000 languages. HSE University in Nizhny Novgorod at the initiative of the HSE Library hosted the festival, “Language Mosaic”, dedicated to International Mother Language Day.

Linguatest, Russia’s first foreign-language certification system, has been launched in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The system was developed by specialists from HSE University in cooperation with the National Accreditation Agency and the Prosveshchenie group of companies, who are providing certification and publishing support for the project. Nizhny Novgorod is the first city after Moscow to offer testing under the system.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Benin to the Russian Federation, His Excellency Okunlola Biau Akambi Andre officially visited Nizhny Novgorod at the invitation of the Nizhny Novgorod campus of the HSE University.

On November 23, students of HSE University-Nizhny Novgorod discussed the role of cultural identity in business and personal growth. Christian Callegaro, Senior Lecturer of the Department of General and Strategic Management at the HSE Faculty of Management in Nizhny Novgorod, and Daniel Rehmann, business consultant at the Swiss technopark Mobahaus in St Petersburg, were the speakers at the meeting.

The IT industry is rapidly developing and incorporating new professions. Zoya Mazunina and Arina Mosyagina, linguists with Seldon and graduates of the HSE University Fundamental and Applied Linguistics programme, met with university applicants to talk about the computer linguist profession, issues of automatic language processing, and how linguists use the knowledge they gain at HSE University.

Austin Garrett-Sites, from the US, is a master's student of the Applied Linguistics and Text Analytics programme in Nizhny Novgorod. Students from around the world to come to Russia to get a European education in English with viable employment prospects. Austin spoke about his impressions after the first year of study and his favourite places in Nizhny Novgorod.

Not so long ago, postcards were a popular way to congratulate someone or send a message. Today the postcard can instead be described as an exotic means of communication, and a rich field for research. This is what encouraged the students and teachers from Fundamental and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities to embark on a flash mob project called ‘Send a Postcard to a Linguist’. Deputy Dean Timur Khusyainov of the Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod), the curator of this flash mob and an experienced postcrosser, discusses whether postcards can be helpful for researchers and how they relate to digital humanities.

Questions of intercultural interaction interest people of all ages and professions more and more. Today, everyone feels the need to learn foreign languages, but for successful communication, first of all, you need to know the language of other cultures. How to avoid intercultural misunderstanding, and why should one learn the language of culture? These and other questions were answered by Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Marina Tsvetkova and Academic Supervisor of the Master's Program "Media Text and Digital Communications" Nelli Boryshneva at the Major League Open Lecture Hall.

A year ago, when we were all just starting our lives in Zoom, MsTeams and other wonderful virtual places, it seemed as if one of our biggest problems was organising practical tasks and projects. However, what we feared did not come true: on the contrary, it turned out that the virtual world is simply waiting to be conquered by philologists.