September 22-24, 2014 in Zvenigorod with the support of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, grant N 14 - 01 - 14016 The IX Congress of Russian Orientalists was held in the form of a coordination meeting. It was organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Society of Orientalists of Russia, and the Scientific Council for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The congress was attended by more than 50 scientists from leading centers of Oriental studies in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Elista, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Vladivostok, Simferopol, as well as from Kazakhstan. The main theme of the congress is "Prospects for the activity of the Society of Orientalists of Russia in the context of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences". On September 22, the congress was opened by Professor M. S. Meyer, one of the founders of the Society of Oriental Studies of Russia (IADR), President of the ISAA of Moscow State University, who gave the floor for a report on the Society's activities over a two - year period to the President of the IADR in 2013-2014, Professor of the Privozhsky (Kazan) Federal University L. N. Latypov. The congress received a greeting from the head of the Republic of Kalmykia A. M. Orlov, which was read out by the director of the Kalmyk Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences N. G. Ochirova. N. N. Dyakov (East Faculty of St. Petersburg.GU) read out a greeting to the congress from the Eastern Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. A. M. Vasiliev, Director of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, announced greetings to colleagues from the Institute of African Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences and detailed information on the progress of the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ... Читать далее