On November 4-11, the deputy director of YSU Institute for Armenian Studies Mher Hovhannisyan and the head of the Department of Diaspora Studies of the same institute Arman Yeghiazaryan were invited to participate in the round-table discussion entitled “Peculiarities of Armenian Diaspora Formation in Russia and Moscow” which was initiated by the laboratory of Diaspora History of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.

Inter-university competition for audio dubbing of Chinese films was organized by the Center of Chinese Language and Culture of the Faculty of International Relations of YSU and Confucius Institute.

The symposium “Building states and nations in turbulent contexts” started today at YSU Balian’ hall.

Today YSU Rector Aram Simonyan had a meeting with the newly-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russian to Armenia H.E. Sergey Kopirkin YSU Vice-Rector for Scientific Policy and International Cooperation Gegham Gevorgyan, the head of the Department of International Cooperation Alexander Margarov, the Dean of the Faculty of Russian Philology Pavel Balayan, the director of YSU Russian Centre Arusyak Nersesyan were present at the meeting.

Professor Levon Mouradian, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Founder and Scientific Director of the Research Laboratory of Ultrafast Optics and Photonics of Scientific-Research Institute of Physics, Doctor of Science, Leading Specialist of Chair of Optics of the Faculty of Physics of the Yerevan State University deceased on September 19, 2018 at the age of 62 after a long battle with cancer.

Armenian team won 1 gold and 2 silver medals at the international contest of Mathematics held at Urgench State University after Al-Khorezmi (Uzbekistan).
50 universities of 20 countries took part in the contest. YSU was represented by 3 students.

By the decision of Board of Trustees of the international analytical center “Constitutional culture”, the Academician of the RA NAS, Doctor of Law Gagik Ghazinayn has been awarded with the honorary medal for supporting the activity of the centre.

The British “Quacquarelli Symonds” company (QS) published the ranking chart of the leading higher educational establishments of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Yerevan State University is again in the list.

The classroom N108 of the Faculty of Armenian Philology has been named after Doctor of Philology, Professor Ashot Sukiasyan.

Student Marusya Gharakhanyan is from the frontier village Koghb.