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HSE School of Philological Studies Launches the Key to the Text Project

Still from the film The Idiot, directed by Ivan Pyriev (1958)
A new permanent column, Key to the Text, prepared by the team of the School of Philological Sciences at the HSE Faculty of Humanities, has launched on the Arzamas media platform. The first instalment focuses on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot: the authors explore the evolution of the meaning of the word ‘idiot’ from antiquity to the nineteenth century and its central role in the writer’s conception of the novel.

'What Impressed Me Most Was the Highly Active and Energetic Group of Students'

A tapestry from the medieval series 'The Lady and the Unicorn'
Sankha Basu, Assistant Professor at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-Delhi), taught a course at the Spring School 'Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy' hosted by the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy. This was his first visit to a Russian university, and he shared his impressions with the HSE News Service.

'Compiling a Dictionary Is Never Finished—It Can Only Be Abandoned'

'Compiling a Dictionary Is Never Finished—It Can Only Be Abandoned'
Mira Bergelson, Professor at the School of Philological Studies, Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Ethnolinguistic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, celebrated her birthday on April 1

Maslenitsa on Staraya Basmannaya Street

Maslenitsa on Staraya Basmannaya Street
Blini, Round Dances, and Warm Meetings

The Russia-Iraq University Union: Conference on Sustainable Development Concludes with a Draft Strategic Agreement

The Russia-Iraq University Union: Conference on Sustainable Development Concludes with a Draft Strategic Agreement
On February 8-9, 2026, First International Scientific Conference "Human Sciences and Sustainable Development" was held in Iraq. A report at the conference was presented by Prof. Felix Azhimov, Dean of the HSE University Faculty of Humanities.