The Russian research university Higher School of Economics (HSE) will launch a master’s program in training in circumventing international sanctions next academic year. The university positions it as “the first in Russia” master’s program where students will be taught to “identify and detect the risks of sanctions and (or) other measures of negative influence on companies by supervisory authorities.”

This is reported by The Moscow Times.

The two-year master’s degree is part of the group of programs in the field of “international corporate compliance”. There are no budget places in it, and the cost of tuition reaches 490 thousand rubles ($6.28 thousand) per year. The program provides 20 places for citizens of the Russian Federation and two for foreigners.

A more budget-friendly option at the Higher School of Economics is the advanced training program “Sanctions Compliance”, which, according to the description, will last from September 16 to November 14 of this year. The cost of training is 84 thousand rubles for 136 hours in the format of Zoom conferences with practice and theory. 

According to one of the university’s founders, the active opening of “anti-sanctions” educational programs at the Higher School of Economics, as well as at other universities and on private platforms, is due to the Kremlin’s “request . “

“Everyone is watching how Iran has been living under sanctions for 40 years. For a long time, it will have to live in a hostile environment, with all kinds of restrictions, with the increasing effectiveness of control over the work of Russian foreign trade organizations. There is a request from above, I think we need to learn to circumvent this matter. The Russian economy has been adjusting to life under sanctions for generations,” he said.

In June, it became known that “matryoshka companies” , which were widely used to avoid taxes in the early 1990s and were banned 30 years ago, may appear in Russia.

It was previously reported that the European Union was considering whether to add Russia to its “gray list” of countries with weak money laundering controls.

However, the European Commission published the relevant list on June 10 , but Russia was not included in it.

Author:  Halyna Yalivets Джерело: https://censor.net/n3563469

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