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At a round table on the history of the struggle against colonial policy, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Konstantin Mogilevsky, spoke about the strengthening of cooperation between the Russian Federation and African states in the scientific and educational sphere. The countries are implementing joint research projects and developing opportunities for African students to study in Russian universities. The meeting was held at the Russian Historical Society.

According to the Deputy Minister, as of today students from 56 African countries study at Russian universities. This academic year more than 34.4 thousand African students were enrolled in universities, which is almost 4 thousand more than last year. Many of them study for free under the Russian Government's special quota for foreigners, which is constantly and steadily increasing and will continue to grow.

Lists of the winners and prize-winners of the master's track, as well as lists of stage 3 participants of the doctoral track, have been published on the respective subject area pages on the Olympiad website.

Individual exam(s) results in all subject areas can be found in the participants' personal accounts on the Olympiad website.

Islamabad hosted the 8th meeting of the Russian-Pakistani Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, chaired by Nikolai Shulginov, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Minister of Economy of Pakistan.

All exams (including additional attempts scheduled on reserve days) have been completed.

The second stage of the OpenDoors Olympiad has started!
Registration for the second stage has closed on January 8.
The second stage consists of online exams, which are supervised by a proctor. The exams of the second stage are the same for the participants of Master's and Postgraduate tracks. All exams are conducted entirely remotely, allowing participants to take them in comfort  without having to leave their home country.

You can see your result and the number of points you have earned in your personal account. The lists of participants who qualified to the second stage are also published on the pages of their chosen subjects' pages. The lists are organized according to the number of points gained: the participants with the highest results go first.

The results of the 2022 Round University Ranking have been published. ITMO was once again ranked first among Russian universities in the Technical Sciences category.

On December 6–7, 2022, the semifinal of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) took place in St Petersburg. Two teams from the HSE Faculty of Computer Science won medals at NERC 2022: FFTilted took overall 2nd place and received the gold medal, and It Has To Work took 8th place (silver medal). Two teams from HSE University—FFTilted (Moscow) and Just3Keks (St Petersburg)—will take part in the ICPC finals, which will be held in Egypt in 2023.

On December 10, the registration for Open Doors-2022 Olympiad closed. Overall number of participants is 56 652.They come from 196 countries and have completed 77 949 portfolios.

To take part in the Olympiad you must register, fill in your portfolio and successfully pass the entrance test. If you have not yet done so, now is your last chance! 

By using artificial intelligence algorithms and a special acrylic paint mixer, the robot can independently obtain any shade of colour to create its own paintings and, in the future, to restore existing works of art.

An innovative non-invasive method of muonography for the study of large objects, developed by a team of authors from NRNU MEPhI, NITU MISIS and FIAN, has been highly appreciated in the 2022 Makariev Prize for Natural Sciences. The scientists' development won the third prize in the category "Methods of natural and exact sciences in the study of the history of the Church, Christian antiquities and the cultural heritage of Russia and the Slavic countries, and innovative technologies that ensure high quality of heritage preservation".

The 45th ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) World Championship Final was held on November 11, 2022 in Dhaka, the capital of the Republic of Bangladesh. Teams of 140 universities from 45 countries took part in the final. Russia was represented by students of 11 universities, 6 of which are organizers of the Olympiad: Higher School of Economics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg branch), ITMO University, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University and Nizhny Novgorod State University.