RUDN improved its position by 183 points and took the 117th place in the THE Emerging Economies University Rankings 2019. The university showed significant growth in terms of “Teaching”, “Citing”, and “Internationalization”.

A RUDN mathematician suggested a method of evaluating the level of nonadditivity in a choice problem, i.e. to calculate how the parameters of the choice are connected to each other, and how it influences the end result. The study will help analyze such systems and find out the most optimal decision by means of calculations. The work was published in the Information Sciences journal.

RUDN plans to double the budget of the competition for the support of postgraduate publications in journals indexed by the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases, as well as the number of prize places. This was announced at the meeting of the Project 5-100 Management Committee by RUDN Rector Vladimir Filippov.

RUDN forges diplomatic personnel. Many university graduates who start diplomatic service, do not lose contact with the university and promote the values and traditions of Alma Mater. At the initiative of such graduates, the International Club of Diplomatic Alumni and Friends of RUDN was established, the first meeting taking place on December 13. The meeting participants discussed the Regulations on the Club and outlined a work plan and interaction formats, as well as elected the management. Mrs. Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda in the Russian Federation, became the President of the Alumni Diplomats Club.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, appointed the Rector of the Peoples' Friendship University, Vladimir Filippov, chairman of the Committee on Educational Programs of UNESCO. The corresponding decree was issued on December 15.

December 12-14, a delegation from the University of Copperbelt (Zambia), headed by Rector, Professor Nason Ngoma, was in Moscow to develop projects of the Cluster Approach of RUDN. A work program for the development of the Center for Imitation Education in Zambia was signed with the Medical Institute.