80 years of Academic diplomacy

80 years of Academic diplomacy


By Vestnik Kavkaza

In September the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs marks 80 years since its foundation. Since 1934 it has prepared more than 8000 professional diplomats, 700 extraordinary and plenipotentiary envoys. Today alumni of the Academy take top positions in state structures. Forecasting and programming of development of international affairs, analytical studies, support of effective protection of Russia’s position in the international arena are only some of tasks which the Diplomatic Academy fulfils today. Russian and foreign diplomats wished all the best to the Academy through Vestnik Kavkaza.

“It is great that the Academy marks its 80th anniversary full of strength and creative concepts. I don’t exaggerate by saying that we receive powerful scientific support from the Academy in our day-to-day activity, foreign political activity. I wish the staff of the Academy new successes, health, and good luck. We will always be together,” Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry agent for human rights, democracy and rule of law, says.

“The Diplomatic Academy includes two big blocks: tutors and scientists. They are complementary,” Andrei Baklanov, the deputy chairman of the Association of Russian Diplomats, explains. “There is fruitful cooperation between scientists and tutors; and students of the Academy are involved into the process smoothly. It provides good results. Today students, the staff, the leadership of the Academy celebrate the anniversary in a good mood. We, the alumni and employees of the Academy, wish the current staff great successes.”

The old cottage on Ostozhenka Street is well-known to representatives of the South Caucasus. According to the presidential order, the Academy teaches specialists from the post-Soviet space for free, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia. “In Azerbaijan many diplomats are connected with the Diplomatic Academy somehow,” Polad Byul-byul Ogly, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia, says. “Some of them defended their theses there; some of them studied there; lectures, contacts, scientific research, consultations. This is an academy in the full sense. It organizes many public events. We, ambassadors to Moscow, are always happy to participate in the events of the Academy.”

Professor Yevgeny Bazhanov, who has been heading the Academy since 2011, related to us the well-known story about a wise man and a butterfly: “We understand clearly that the future of the Diplomatic Academy is in our own hands. Only if we work hard, fairly and effectively, will the Diplomatic Academy be in demand.”

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev wished all the best to the Academy’s staff by letter, while Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shared his memories personally: “I graduated from the MGIMO. When I entered the university, it was situated in the building where the main building of the Diplomatic Academy is situated now. We studied, truanted, organized performances, passed exams, resat exams. This is a big part of my life, and it was fun. I think it helped me to choose the business of my life, my favorite business.”

 

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