By Vestnik Kavkaza
On July 4th in Moscow, the Russian State University for the Humanities held a solemn ceremony of awarding diplomas to the graduates of 2013. More than 1,300 students of all levels, from undergraduate to second higher education, gathered in the courtyard of the university to symbolically say farewell to their student past and to enter a new professional life. The rector of RSUH, Yefim Pivovar, opened the ceremony and congratulated the graduates: “Today you become our colleagues, colleagues in the full sense of the word. Hooray! This is only the beginning. The beginning because, in our time, in our age, the age of the information revolution, education cannot be obtained once for an entire life, you can only go on with it all your life. That is, education must be maintained as a process throughout your life. And I hope that the basis and foundation that you received in our walls will allow you to do so effectively, efficiently and successfully”.
Some parting words to recent graduates were addressed by the head of the Institute of Media, RSUH, Nikolai Svanidze: “Russian State University for the Humanities is a guild, a corporation, it is a flagship, the best university for humanities in the country. And now you really become a part of this guild, part of the corporation. It is a great honor for us, it is a great honor for you. It pulls us together. It gives a feeling of fellowship, in the best sense of the word.
Many years ago, when I was graduating from the history department of Moscow State University, then Dean, and then Academician Yuri S. Kukushkin admonished us in this way: "You join the glorious squad of the intelligentsia." Now you, too, join the glorious squad of the intelligentsia. Today, the intelligentsia is a complex concept, it has changed a lot since then. But what does it mean? It means a clear, well-informed life, a life full of responsibility for yourselves and for your country”.
The Rector of the University personally handed diplomas to each of the graduates. The graduates shared their impressions of their years in the State University for the Humanities.
“I studied at the very good department of International Relations. I always wanted to study at this department, we have a very good faculty. And it was very interesting to study, time passes by very quickly”, Camila Gazieva said.
Muhammad Hussein agrees with her: “The lecturers, teachers were good. These are people of the old school. And in my experience, I know they did a lot for me. Education is a necessary thing. We can talk about it for a long time, but you should really come and study here”.
