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Maksim Orlov has graduated from Tyumen State University with honors as a bachelor in international relations and Lomonosov Moscow State University with honors as a master in international relations.

In 2014 became an alumnus of the Global UGRAD program and spent one year studying at Columbia University (New York, USA). During his studies in Columbia University, he had an internship in the United Nations press office in New York and Russian department to Security Council.

In 2015 Maksim was invited to join a UN youth working group on Sustainable implementation Goals. As a member this working group he was appointed to the position of head of the international department of the Commission on quality education of Russian Ministry of education and science of the Council of youth affairs.

In July 2015 became an official representative of the Ministry of education and science in the first BRICS youth summit in Kazan, Russia. At the same time, he was accredited by UNESCO and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

In November 2015 Maksim was appointed to the position of youth representative of the Russian Federation to NATO (in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States).

In 2016 he became a winner of Lomonosov Moscow State University Universiade and became a master student of Lomonosov Moscow State University in international relations with the specialization of international public relations.

In May 2016 was a participant of primary elections of United Russia (Единая Россия) to the Russian Federation State Duma. At that time his bachelor thesis written during studies in Tyumen State University was recognized as the best thesis and reviewed by the Russian Federation Ministry of foreign affairs.
Since September 2016 worked in Russian Federation State Duma and became a member of Council of international relations.

In 2017 started to work in the Russian Federation government. In September 2017 his duties as a youth representative of the Russian Federation to NATO were prolonged.
In December 2017 became a founder of Academic mobility center and appointed to a position of president. At the same time, Maksim Orlov is a project coordinator of Alumniverein des Deutsch-Russischen Jugenparlaments e.V. (DRJUG e.V.)

Elena Lyapuntsova is a Ph.D. specialist in the field of computer science and computer technology; semiotics in technical systems; artificial intelligence, in particular, neural networks and neural-like structures. Moreover, also in the field of developing a modern approach to information theory (semiotic information theory).
She graduated from Taganrog Radio Engineering University (TREU) with honors with a degree in Electronic Computers in 1985.

In 1989 she defended her thesis on the topic "Development and study of the structure and principles of organization of local computer systems for the implementation of logical control algorithms" in TREU (SFedU).

She has worked as an adviser to the Council of Federation of the Russian Federation, became an assistant to the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. During her occupation in Russian governmental institutions she participated in the International Forums on the program Innovative Universities 2013, was a member of the parliamentary delegation to the International Brussels Forum in May 2013, participated in congressional hearings in the State Duma, conferences and roundtables on intangible resources and intellectual property, on World Trade Organization (WTO) and Russia in the World Trade Center.

She is an Associate Member of the Russian-French Chamber of Commerce, member of the Expert Council International markets, trade and economic cooperation of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship.

Elena is a head of the Working Group on Adaptation and Integration of Intellectual Property and Educational Programs in the Conditions of Russia's Accession to the WTO in the State Duma.
She was recommended by the President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Oleg Kuznetsov to join the working group on the preparation of a new Law on Science in the Russian Federation headed by the Chairman of the Subcommittee on State Scientific and Technical Policy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Currently she is the Head of the subgroup of technical universities of the working group of the State Duma Committee on Science and High Technology, Deputy Head of the subset on forming domestic demand for domestic high-tech products of the Foundation for Internet Initiatives Development under the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, is a member of the Union of Journalists of Moscow and correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Science.

She is a founder and Chair of High School Professors League that implements projects with the assistance of Russian President fund grants.