International Department of Baikal State University held a party for students dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. Dean of the International Department Anna Litovkina congratulated the men on this important holiday for our country.
Viktor Ignatenko, Rector of Baikal State University, celebrates his 65th birthday. Directors of the university's institutes, heads of departments, colleagues and friends, as well as representatives of the authorities came to congratulate him and present him with gifts in the Academic Council meeting room: Igor Kobzev, Governor of the Irkutsk Region, Alexander Vedernikov, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region, Ruslan Bolotov, Mayor of Irkutsk, Elena Apanovich, Deputy Minister of Education of the Irkutsk Region.
A quest dedicated to the celebration of the New Year according to the Eastern calendar was held at the Khudozhestvenny Center. The New Year according to the Eastern calendar is celebrated for fifteen days. In 2024 it is celebrated from February 10 to 24. It is often unofficially called "Lunar New Year". New Year is celebrated as a public holiday in Southeast Asian countries.
Foreign students of BSU became prizewinners in the First Inter-University Championship among students of the People's Republic of China and Mongolia in darts and billiards.
The round table "Turn to the East: One Year Later" was held in the Scientific Library of the V.G. Rasputin State University. The event was attended by students of Baikal State University Daria Kharitonova and Arina Zhambalova, who presented their reports analyzing the research activities of the Valdai Club and scenarios of Baikal Siberia development made during the Baikal Economic Forum. The reports of Baikal State University representatives were highly appreciated by experts from the Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Following the presentations, a free discussion was held, where the audience expressed their opinions on Russian foreign policy in the Far East and South Asia.