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Department of Political Science

About the department

The mission of the Department of Political Science is to be a leading Russian center in the field of political science and to increase the scale of scientific and research projects. An important area of the Department’s work is also constructive interaction with the labor market in order to help young political scientists and public relations specialists find jobs and realize their working potential.

The Department actively cooperates with relevant ministries, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Analytical Holding LLC, the State Duma, the RISI, which allows students to gain practical skills necessary for effective competitiveness in the labor market.

The educational process is provided in accordance with educational standards, work programs and methodological support tools approved in accordance with the procedure established by the Financial University, the specifics of which are, inter alia, the use of forms of intermediate control that exclude formal attitude to disciplines (written form of exams, systematic monitoring of the quality of teaching by students (the survey “The Teacher through the Eyes of the Student” etc.).

The Department promotes the development of Russian political science through the active and systematic publication of the results of research and scientific and methodological activities in the field of social sciences. The Department also actively participates in various scientific competitions, in the examination of dissertations, scientific articles, monographs, textbooks, textbooks prepared for publication, and other scientific projects.

Administration

Simonov Konstantin Vasilyevich

Head of the Department of Political Science

  • PhD in Political Science
  • Professor

Rastorguev Sergey Viktorovich

Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science for Educational and Methodological Work

  • Professor
  • Doctor of Political Science

In 2019, he was awarded the Gratitude of the Rector of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation for carrying out a large amount of work on the development of his own educational standards in the field of study “Political Science”, as well as an Honorary Diploma of the Russian Academy of Education.

Petrosyants Daniel Viktorovich

Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science

  • PhD in Economics
  • Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Science

Pyrma Roman Vasilyevich

Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science for Research

  • PhD in Political Science
  • Associate Professor

He was awarded the Gratitude of the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia for his significant contribution to fundamental research in the field of socio-political sciences within the framework of projects of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in 2019.