On January 30, members of the Eurasian Club of the Diplomatic Academy at MGIMO University under the Russian Foreign Ministry visited the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. The visit was organized with the assistance of First Deputy Minister of Transport Konstantin Pashkov.
The participants were given a tour of the Ministry’s Museum, where they learned about the history of transport development in Russia and the establishment of the Ministry itself.
Club members held a meeting with the Ministry’s Department of International Cooperation employees, who spoke about the specifics of work within the ministry and career prospects for university graduates.
Following the tour, students recorded an interview with Polina Devyatkina, an advisor in the Integration Associations Section of the Department of International Cooperation and a master’s student at the Diplomatic Academy of MGIMO. The topic of conversation was Eurasian cooperation in the transport sector and personal professional experience.
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The Eurasian club of the MGIMO Diplomatic Academy
The Eurasian Club of the Diplomatic Academy at MGIMO University is a platform uniting students of the Academy from the CIS countries who study Eurasia and integration processes in the region. The Club was founded in 2023.
Transport Cooperation within the CIS
Cooperation in the field of transport is one of the most actively developing areas within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Its advancement is entrusted to a number of specialized cooperation bodies:
- The Coordinating Transport Meeting – regulates interaction in maritime, road, and inland water transport, and is responsible for addressing general transport issues in the CIS member states in cooperation with other CIS transport bodies.
- The Interstate Council of Road Builders – an intergovernmental coordinating body for cooperation among states in the design, construction, reconstruction, and operation of highways, and the improvement of road networks and structures.
- The Council on Aviation and Airspace Use – a collegial body that develops a common position of aviation authorities on acute or key issues of air transport activity and has the authority to resolve disputes in air communication between CIS states.
- The Council on Railway Transport – a specialized cooperation body of railway administrations that coordinates the work of railway transport in CIS member states at the interstate level to develop agreed principles of operation and ensure efficient functioning.
As part of its CIS chairmanship in 2026, Turkmenistan has identified strengthening transport interconnectivity as one of the most important areas for the Commonwealth’s development.