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Web Internationalization: Russian Universities 2017-2018

Report No. 40/2018 Report No. 40/2018 This report is the result of a new stage in the research of the online English-language resources on the websites of Russian universities and is a follow-up to the initial report produced by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) entitled «Web Internationalization: Russian Universities» in 2015. This issue provides a new ranking as of 2017–2018. The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language websites of universities and analyzed...

07.12.2018

Web Internationalization of Russian Universities (2016–2017)

RIAC Report #31 / 2017 This report is the result of a new stage in the research of the online English-language resources on the websites of Russian universities and is a follow-up to the initial report produced by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) entitled “Web Internationalization: Russian Universities” in 2015. The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language websites of universities. The online resources of 47 universities were analysed and compared with...

10.07.2017

108 Soft Power Elements of Russian Universities on the Internet

On March 22, 2016 an open discussion “108 Soft Power Elements of Russian Universities on the Internet” took place at the venue of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The discussion was devoted to the publication of the English version of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) report “ Electronic Internationalization: ...

23.03.2016

Web Internationalization: Russian Universities

Report No. 24/2016 This Report was prepared as part of the study carried out by the Russian International Affairs Council on the role of the Internet in internationalizing Russian universities. The authors developed a methodology for assessing the English-language sites of Russian universities, carrying out an analysis of 45 resources and comparing them with the websites of 11 leading foreign ...

23.03.2016

Better than a “Global Player”. Interview with Yandex Product Marketing Director

... little doubt that if a person after the search visited some site and never returned to that search query, he did find what he wanted. Thus, he has voted in favor of the fact that this site offers the information you need. The second group of Yandex educational projects is aimed at our customers. The product that we sell, advertising on the Internet, is high-tech and ever-changing; there are no textbooks on it yet and you can’t study it in universities due to the appalling obsolescence of our entire system of higher education, especially in the field of marketing. When creating a product,...

27.10.2015

Internet in Latin America: Reality and Future in Digital Terms

... was somewhat similar to Russia’s FidoNet . This system became the infrastructure base and launch pad for the regional Internet, when on February 28, 1989 the Monterey Institute of Technology launched the NSFNET, albeit only on an inter-university ... ... event was followed by similar experiments by National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM , the country's leading higher educational institution. In 1992, the system was used as the platform for the expansive MexNet, an information network uniting ...

21.04.2015

RIAC’s Educational Projects Presented in Venice International University

... International University . The highly responsive participants, among them representatives of Russian universities with RIAC corporate membership and Italian universities, focused on promising cooperation schemes for advancement of universities through the Internet. “ Development of university websites is a significant element of marketing educational programs abroad and building a global platform for effective cooperation in education and research areas ,” said RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov . Ambassador Umberto Vattani , President of Venice International University, suggested ...

04.12.2014

RIAC: New Agenda for Universities

On 8 September 2014, the RIAC held a symposium “Promoting Russian Universities on the Foreign Internet and Academic Press”. The event gathered representatives of universities that are corporate members and partners of the Council. RIAC General Director Andrei Kortunov opened the symposium by pointing out the heightened importance of educational cooperation in the current international situation. He identified the following focus points for the Council for 2015: — Mobilising university experts for the Council’s core programme activities; — Engaging universities in ...

09.09.2014

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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