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Polytechnics beyond the Arctic Circle: Gazprom invited students to an operating fuel production facility for the first time

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The 3rd Meeting of Gazprom's target students took place in the shift settlement of Yamburg (YaNAO). It was attended by 150 students from the company's specialized universities from all over the country. The meeting was held for the first time at an operating gas production facility.

The program of the meeting included lectures on the development of gas production at the Kara Sea shelf fields, trainings, team-building events and a team case championship. The students saw Gazprom production facilities at the Yamburg oil and gas condensate field, visited social and household facilities of the rotational village, and got acquainted with the culture and traditions of the indigenous peoples of the North.

Two students from the Institute of Power Engineering, in the Electrical Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering program, participated in the meeting from the Polytechnic University: Leonid Golubev (3rd year bachelor's degree student) and Vladimir Sergeev (1st year master's degree student), target students of Gazprom Transgaz Saint Petersburg.

"The gathering included interesting training sessions on soft skills development. It was interesting to solve cases, learn new things, improve communication and teamwork skills. The organizers also tried to fill the program with excursions, events "at the edge of the earth". This gathering will be remembered for the knowledge acquired, friends and emotions," Vladimir shared.

"Surrounded by one and a half hundred talented students from all over Russia, I solved current problems of developing new deposits. All this together helped me to start believing in myself more, not to be afraid to move forward, to learn to look for new non-standard solutions," Leonid said.

Polytechnic employees also participated in the event as experts on the case championship jury: Elvira Tuktamysheva, Head of the Employment Assistance Sector, and Janis Olekhnovich, Curator of the “PAO Gazprom Flagship University” project.

"Immersion in the corporate culture, production and business processes of the company shows students their immediate future after graduation," Elvira Tuktamysheva noted. "Thanks to this, the likelihood of stress during the transition from studying at a university to working in a company is reduced. Such a system helps the guys more easily adapt to a new stage in their professional career."

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Yandex Education student camp on natural language processing has started at Novosibirsk State University

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Today, the Yandex Education student camp on NLP (Natural Language Processing) started at the Novosibirsk State University. It is attended by 100 students from IT departments of universities from all over the country. In two weeks, the participants will master key approaches to text processing, as well as work with large language models BERT, GPT and YandexGPT (used for content analysis and generation) in practice. At the end of the student camp, students will defend team projects that they can add to their own portfolios. Participants will teach artificial intelligence to structure information, find contradictions in texts, search for data in complex documents where text, tables and graphs are mixed, and also improve the reasoning skills of language models.

Minister of Digital Development and Communications of the Novosibirsk Region Sergey Tsukar emphasized: The Novosibirsk Region, as the capital of IT personnel, always supports the holding of various educational events on digital topics and is happy to host IT students from all over the country.

— In the Novosibirsk Region, 10 universities and 14 colleges train IT specialists. NSU is our reliable partner. The guys had a chance to study at one of the best universities — world-class and at one of the leading scientific centers of Russia — Akademgorodok. This is a unique opportunity — to get concentrated, fundamental knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence in two weeks, which usually takes months to study. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a trend, it is our reality today. I thank Yandex for such relevant, interesting, free educational projects, — noted Sergey Tsukar.

NSU has been cooperating with Yandex for many years. Based on Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of NSU A master's program was opened with the support of the School of Data Analysis – "Applied Machine Learning and Big Data". Many graduates of the program work in large IT companies.

— It is an honor for us that such an event is held at Novosibirsk University. The student camp is an intensive course in IT areas, which is held by Yandex Education together with the leading universities of our country. Of course, our university, which is located in the very center of Akademgorodok, is one of such universities. I hope that these two weeks will be truly intensive for you, there will be intense work. There was a very big competition for the student camp, the best were selected. You will leave here not only with new acquaintances, friends, new impressions, but also with new knowledge. You will be taught by experts from Yandex and our university. I think this will help you in your professional career, and in some time, I am sure, we will be proud of many of you, — said the rector of NSU, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Fedoruk.

The first week of the student camp is devoted to getting acquainted with key approaches to NLP. Participants will understand the architecture of transformers (models that use the attention mechanism for fast learning), study methods of adaptation and interpretation of models, and master the tasks of classification, generation and error tolerance. They will also study advanced technologies: attention mechanisms, autoregressive models, multimodality and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). In the second week, students will focus on practice: they will work with data analysis and the final defense of a project that solves real problems at the intersection of science and industry.

Kirill Barannikov, Head of Strategic Development of Higher Education at Yandex Education, notes:

— We focus on new formats of education, and student camps are one of them. Full-time intensive programs are open to students from all over Russia. They provide not only relevant knowledge, access to big tech technologies, but also the opportunity to meet practicing industry experts and teachers from the country's strongest universities. In addition, in two weeks, participants have time to put together a full-fledged project for their portfolio and immerse themselves in a new socio-cultural environment – the city and university where the student camp is taking place. Almost 1,200 students from 200 universities applied for the NLP program at NSU – the competition was about 12 people per place. The selected participants will study natural language processing technologies, which are used today in various fields: from developing voice assistants to analyzing big data.

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Yandex Education student camps are two-week intensive courses in mathematics, IT and artificial intelligence, which are held at leading Russian universities in a face-to-face format. Participating students come to the university for two weeks to immerse themselves in an educational program on a specific topic and create a team project for their own portfolio.

Experts from Yandex, SHAD and the host university participate in creating content for student camps. The creators of the program include both practicing specialists and theorists with experience in teaching.

The project is designed for 3rd-4th year undergraduate students who are already studying computer science at the university and have a base in programming and mathematics. Junior students can also participate in the selection if their knowledge allows them to master the program.

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Candidates for the title of "Ambassadors of Russian Education and Science" have been approved

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A key meeting of the Council of the Consortium of Educational and Scientific Organizations was held, dedicated to the approval of candidates for the honorary title of "Ambassador of Russian Education and Science". In February 2023, an agreement was signed on the consortium for the implementation of the "Ambassadors of Russian Education and Science" program, among its participants is the Polytechnic University. The session considered 21 submissions from 12 Russian universities. The Polytechnic nominated Liu Wei (China) and Issa Togo (Mali).

The activities of both candidates have been promoting Russian education abroad for decades. Secretary General of the Institute of Russia at Tsinghua University Liu Wei has been overseeing scientific and technical cooperation with the Russian Federation since 2002. Dozens of projects have been implemented under her leadership, including Russian-Chinese dialogues on innovation, the creation of Russian language testing centers, and youth competitions.

A 1985 graduate of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, associate professor at SPbPU and Honorary Consul of Mali in St. Petersburg, Issa Togo coordinates academic ties with African universities, participates in the reform of higher education in Mali and heads a large-scale hydroelectric project.

The consortium council unanimously approved the candidates, sending the documents for final approval to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. If successful, Liu Wei and Issa Togo will join the ranks of 24 current ambassadors from 22 countries.

"Liu Wei and Issa Togo are not just allies, but living bridges between cultures. Their dedication to education is the polytechnic spirit in action: when a graduate, wherever he is, continues to carry the banner of his alma mater. We are proud that it is our candidates who set the tone in promoting Russian values abroad. Their recognition is an investment in the future, where science and education know no boundaries," commented Dmitry Arsenyev, Vice-Rector for International Affairs at SPbPU.

Under the program "Ambassadors of Russian Education and Science", which unites 44 universities of the country, since 2023, 24 experts from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America have been awarded the title. Polytechnic University is traditionally among the most active participants in the initiative.

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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck off the coast of Indonesia's Maluku province

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

JAKARTA, July 14 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 jolted waters southwest of Southeast Maluku Regency in Indonesia's Maluku Province at 12:49 p.m. Monday local time, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said.

The epicentre was located approximately 170 km southwest of Southeast Maluku, with the hypocentre at a depth of 108 km, BMKG reported on its website.

Due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia is often subject to seismic activity. –0–

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China invites Chinese and foreign journalists to cover events in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War

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BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) — Journalists from China and abroad have been invited to cover events in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.

The online registration system will be available at http://kzjn80reg.zgjx.cn from July 15 to July 29, 2025.

Overseas journalists, as well as journalists from the Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan, can apply for accreditation through the system.

For the convenience of journalists, a press center will be operating in Beijing during the events, providing services such as holding press conferences and briefings, coordinating interviews, and distributing updated news through the official website and its Wechat account. -0-

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Former Deputy Head of China's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration Expelled from CPC

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BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) — Former deputy head of China's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration Zhang Tianfeng has been expelled from the Communist Party of China for serious violations of party discipline and laws, an official statement said Monday.

The decision was made following an investigation conducted by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervisory Committee with the approval of the CPC Central Committee.

During the investigation, it was found that Zhang Tianfeng had lost his ideals and beliefs and was resisting the organizational inspection.

Ignoring the "Eight-Point Rules" of the CPC Central Committee, Zhang Tianfeng made gifts of money and gifts in violation of relevant regulations. He was also found to have attended banquets that could affect his impartial performance of official duties.

He violated the Party's organizational principles by extracting benefits for others in the process of nominating and appointing cadres, in exchange for which he received money and material goods.

Moreover, he abused his official position and other state resources for personal gain, using his influence in the tobacco sector to engage in “leveraging” transactions, as well as on behalf of third parties in concluding contracts for projects and advancing up the career ladder, for which he illegally received from them monetary and material assets on an especially large scale, the statement said.

Following the investigation, a decision was made to confiscate his illegally obtained income, as well as to transfer his case to the prosecutor's office for further consideration and the initiation of criminal prosecution, the document says. -0-

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Chinese and Foreign Experts Discuss Sustainable Development of the SCO in Shanghai

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SHANGHAI, July 14 (Xinhua) — The SCO Think Tank Forum 2025, themed "Promoting Sustainable Development Guided by the Shanghai Spirit," was held from Saturday to Sunday at the SCO Center for International Legal Training and Cooperation (China) based at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.

Nearly 100 experts and scholars from leading universities and think tanks in China and abroad attended the forum. They held in-depth exchanges of views on the issues of “SCO and the Transformation of the Global Governance System,” “SCO’s Own Construction and Reform,” “Striving for Sustainable Common Security,” “Inclusiveness, Win-Win, Mutually Beneficial Cooperation, and Striving for Common Prosperity,” “Searching for Universal Values in the Diversity of Civilizations,” and “Development Prospects for the SCO.”

Rector of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, Director of the Office of the Center for International Legal Training and Cooperation of the SCO /China/ Liu Xiaohong noted that over the past 20 years, guided by the "Shanghai Spirit", the SCO has achieved significant success in regional security, economic cooperation and humanitarian exchanges and serves as an important example of a new type of regional cooperation mechanism. She also expressed hope that the forum will give new impetus to regional cooperation.

According to Sun Zhuangzhi, Director of the Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), the launch of the “SCO Year of Sustainable Development” within the framework of China’s rotating chairmanship of the SCO will contribute to the development of global governance in a more just and rational direction and will make the SCO’s contribution to promoting peace and development throughout the world.

Speaking at the event, former SCO Secretary-General Vladimir Norov suggested that SCO think tanks focus on priority tasks, including aligning national strategies for transport infrastructure development, developing a unified mechanism for monitoring carbon emissions with the involvement of national environmental agencies, and expanding research into SCO humanitarian diplomacy, which, he said, not only reflect the realities of the current geopolitical and economic context, but also outline a concrete agenda that can transform the SCO from a platform of declarations into a mechanism for practical solutions.

The forum was jointly organized by the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, the SCO Center for International Legal Training and Cooperation (China), the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) and the China Center for SCO Studies. -0-

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/Roundtable on China's Economy/ China's state-level economic and technological development zones promote regional coordinated development

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BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) — China's national-level economic and technological development zones (NTDZs) have served as powerful engines of regional growth, spurring industrial development in both prosperous and less developed regions, a guest speaker said at the latest edition of the China Economic Roundtable hosted by Xinhua News Agency.

These national-level economic and technological development zones play a leading role in their respective provinces or regions. Specializing in key industries, the economic and technological development zones expand the economic influence of developed regions and accelerate the development of less developed regions, said Ji Xiaofeng, spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Investment of the Ministry of Commerce.

Ji Xiaofeng noted that economic and technological development zones not only function as platforms for global opening-up, but also as centers for the orderly movement of industries across regions. By strengthening the cluster development of competitive and leading industries, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China will fully utilize the beneficial influence of the zones on the regions, she added.

For example, the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone is actively expanding its industrial and supply chains to neighboring areas, allowing local enterprises to benefit and achieve mutual growth.

According to Ji Xiaofeng, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China also gives priority to deepening ties between leading regional enterprises in the industry through interaction between eastern and western economic and technological development zones.

In 1984, China established its first national-level economic and technological development zone in the northeastern city of Dalian. By 2024, the number of such zones had reached 232, with a gross regional product of 16.9 trillion yuan (about $2.36 trillion). -0-

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Rosneft increases the efficiency of technological equipment

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Specialists from the Ufa corporate scientific institute have developed a design for a gear reducer installed at the Bashneft-UNPZ treatment facilities (part of Rosneft). The part was manufactured according to the scientific institute's drawings and implemented in the production process.

The research institute has been working on import substitution of parts at Ufa oil refineries since 2024. The institute plans to develop 3D printing from polymers and composites. Potentially, this method can produce more than 5,000 spare parts for Rosneft enterprises. Currently, pilot tests of impellers of electric motors for booster and oil pumps made of plastic are being conducted at the largest production asset of the Company, RN-Yuganskneftegaz. Based on the test results, serial production of parts is planned.

Rosneft is actively implementing an import substitution program, including in the area of providing oil refineries with spare parts. The innovative approach of 3D scanning allows creating a high-precision digital 3D model, on the basis of which Russian enterprises manufacture spare parts that are not inferior to foreign parts in terms of quality characteristics.

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Cameroon's incumbent president has announced his decision to run for another presidential term.

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YAOUNDE, July 14 (Xinhua) — Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Sunday announced his decision to run for re-election in the upcoming presidential election scheduled for October 12.

"I am running for president. Rest assured that my determination to serve you is in line with the urgency of the tasks before us," P. Biya said in a letter published on his social networks.

He said the "welfare of youth and women" would be his top priority.

P. Biya, 92, who ruled Cameroon for 43 years, is seeking an eighth presidential term. –0–

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