On 27 April 2020, the Faculty of Business and Law of Yessenov University held the international research and practice online conference “The Caspian Region: New Threats and New Opportunities”.
The conference aimed to create a platform to discuss priority issues of science and education in the Caspian region, share experience, build research links between Kazakhstani and foreign scholars and support socially significant initiatives.
The conference covered the following areas:
financial and economic relations and international cooperation with Caspian states; the legal status of the Caspian region and the positions of the littoral states;
the Caspian region: prospects for tourism, logistics and economic development. Participants included the university’s academic staff, scholars from Kazakhstani universities and well-known researchers from abroad: Himmet Karadal, professor at Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University (Turkey); Jalal Malakootifar, graduate in International Relations of the University of Vienna (Austria, Islamic Republic of Iran); A.A. Turgayeva, associate professor at Astrakhan State Technical University (Russia); and Dababrata Chowdhury, professor at the University of Suffolk (United Kingdom).
