Russian University Launches Master's Program to Navigate Sanctions
Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, a Russian public research university, has launched a two-year master's program focused on mitigating and navigating international sanctions, the Moscow Times reported. The program is described as the first of its kind in Russia, and it aims to train students about how to "identify and assess the risks of sanctions and other measures imposed by supervisory authorities on companies." The program, which is reportedly not funded by the Russian government, costs about 490,000 rubles, or $6,260, annually, with 20 seats reserved for Russian citizens and two for international students.
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Graduates of the program will work in the compliance divisions of the "largest Russian and international organizations, a field particularly in demand since new regulatory requirements have been introduced for internal organizational control, as well as in national and foreign legal and consulting companies," the school said, according to an unofficial translation.