Institute of International Relations and Social-political Studies
Director of the Institute 
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, Honorary Figure of Russian Higher Education
Kasyuk Arsen Yakovlevich
The Institute of International Relations and Social-political Studies was established as a part of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation in 2004. In April 2006 it was reorganized into a separate faculty offering seven educational programs:
• International relations (degrees: Bachelor and Master of International Relations)
• Political studies (degrees: Bachelor and Master of Political Studies)
• Sociology (degrees: Bachelor and Master of Sociology)
• Region studies (degrees: Bachelor and Master of Foreign Region Studies)
• Cultural studies (degrees: Bachelor and Master of Cultural Studies)
• Public relations (degrees: Bachelor and Master of Public Relations)
• Journalism (degrees: Bachelor and Master of Journalism)
In the framework of each educational program of the Institute students professionally study two foreign languages, including: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Dutch, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Armenian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Rumanian, Moldavian.
Departments of the Institute:
• The Department of Theory and History of International Relations
• The Department of Political Studies
• The Department of Sociology
• The Department of Theory of Region Studies
• The Department of Public Relations
• The Department of Journalism
• The Department of World Culture
• The Department of Linguistics and Professional Communication in the Sphere of Political Science
• The Department of Linguistics and Professional Communication in the Sphere of Media Technology
• The Department of Linguistics and Professional Communications in the Sphere of Foreign Region Studies
The Institute includes several educational centres:
• The Information Technology Centre
• The Centre of Ethnogenesis
• The Press Centre
The graduates of the Institute may choose to take a postgraduate course to continue their studies in accordance with the following educational profiles:
07.00.15 – History of international relations and foreign policy
22.00.04 – Social structure, social institutes and processes
23.00.04 – Political issues in international relations, global and regional development
24.00.01 – Theory and History of culture