September 25, 2014, the Head of the Laboratory, Alexander Knysh, held the seminar “Virtual Jihad in the XXI century: the Caucasus Emirate” at the European University. At the beginning of the seminar Professor A. Knysh gave a lecture on the stated topic followed by a lively discussion. In addition to the scientific community the seminar was attended by a large number of students and postgraduate students from various educational institutions of St. Petersburg.
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On September 24, the Laboratory held an open lecture of Alexander Knysh “Quran and Quran studies today.” The lecture was delivered within the frame of the training course “Quran” for students of the 4th year of study on the profile of “Economics of the Middle East.” Among the audience there were students and postgraduate students of various areas of training, as well as teachers.

A series of conferences with the participation of the members of the Laboratory of analysis and modeling of social processes took place in September this year.
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