A delegation from the Ethiopian Institute of Policy Studies visited the Faculty of Social Sciences.

On 23 June, the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted a round table ‘Federalism in Russia and Ethiopia: Origins, Development and Prospects’ with the participation of scholars from the Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute. The Ethiopian delegation was led by Professor Petros Beyene, Director of the Institute. He shared his experience of working in Ethiopia's Transitional Government in the early 1990s, which drafted the country's current constitution, which provides for a transition to a federal model. On the FSN side, First Deputy Dean Mikhail Mironyuk took part in the roundtable, noting the stabilising role of federalism in Russia in recent years. 

During the round table, Russian and Ethiopian researchers discussed areas of bilateral cooperation and the progress of work on a joint project dedicated to a comparative analysis of the development of federalism in Russia and Ethiopia. The idea for the project was born during the visit of Leonid Issaev and Andrei Zakharov of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis to Addis Ababa in October 2023. In the course of negotiations with the leadership of the Institute for Policy Studies, the participants came to the opinion that the experience of formation and development of federalism in Russia and Ethiopia has many common features that require a separate scientific understanding.  During the meeting at the Higher School of Economics, Russian and Ethiopian scholars discussed the structure of the future joint monograph and the further progress of its preparation. The parties also agreed to hold the next meeting to discuss the draft version of the monograph in November 2024 in Addis Ababa at the Institute for Policy Studies.