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 Faculty of Oriental Studies is marking its 50th anniversary and the First Armenian Congress on Oriental Studies is held on November 9-10.

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

The presentation of the story collections entitled “Voice of independent generation” was held at YSU Cultural Center today.

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.

On November 6, prior to the 50th anniversary of YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies the representatives of the Faculty headed by Dean, Professor Ruben Melkonyan visited the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

The series of lectures entitled “Tendencies of microbiological biotechnology” started at YSU Faculty of Biology are going to last till November 8. The invited lecturer Professor of Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg of Germany Garry Sovers delivered some lectures to the faculty, young scholars and students.

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.