Representatives of the Yanka Kupala State University took part in the meeting of the international discussion club "Tavrichesky"

On March 11, an online meeting of the Tavrichesky International youth discussion club was held, organized by the International Institute for Monitoring the Development of Democracy of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States, the Terra Politica Youth Club of the Russian Geographical Society and the MGIMO Student Scientific Society of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. The topic of the meeting is "Visualization of electoral processes. How do geographical maps help to understand elections?".

Viktor Vatyl, Head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, member of the Scientific and Expert Council of the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus, students and teachers of the Faculty of History, Communication and Tourism, law students, members of the Young Voters Club and the Yanka Kupala State University Debate Club took part in the online event in the format of a round table.

During the discussion club meeting, the staff of the MGIMO Institute of International Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Lidia Zhirinova presented reports on "Assessing the significance of the neighborhood effect in voting through the calculation of spatial autoregression" and Yana Polyakova on "Multidimensional scaling in electoral research".

Heads of election commissions of the CIS countries, scientists and experts in the field of law, political science and international relations attended the meeting of the club as experts.