Starting November 9th, 2020, Dr. Stevan Gajić, Research Associate at the Institute for European Studies, has been lecturing to postgraduates of the Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO), the Italian University of Pisa (Università di Pisa – UniPi), and the Moscow State University. (Moscow State University named after Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov) and the French University of Social Sciences (SciencesPo) in Paris. A series of these online lectures to MGIMO, UniPi, MGU and SciencesPo master students, organized within the cooperation of MGIMO and UniPi, is dedicated to various aspects of contemporary international relations, with the focus on more or less turbulent relations between Russia and the West in the past and present, with a projection of future relations.