IMEMO Deputy Director corresponding member of RAS V. Mikheev and Dr V. Shvydko, Head of Japanese Studies Section, met with a delegation of Japanese experts headed by Mr. Toshiro Iijima, Deputy Director General of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).

IMEMO Deputy Director corresponding member of RAS V. Mikheev and professor A. Fedorovskiy, Head, Pacific Studies Section met with delegation of South Korean experts Headed by Mr. Park Kwangho, Director of Analysis Department, Ministry of Unification.

Experts of the IMEMO Center for Asia-Pacific Studies and the University of Melbourne (Australia) met on October 2, 2013 for a roundtable discussion «Social and Institutional Deficiencies Affecting Economic Growth in East Asia: Organized Crime & Corruption». The discussion centered on comparison of scale and character of the influence of organized crime and corruption on economic activities in the countries of this region.

Workshop «Inter-Korean relations and regional powers» was held on June 20, 2013 with support of the Korea Foundation. IMEMO deputy director corresponding member of RAS V. Mikheev was a chair of the workshop.

The scientific conference organized jointly with the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IWEP CASS) was held at IMEMO RAN. 

A roundtable conference was held at the IMEMO Center of Asia-Pacific Studies to discuss political and economic stability in China after the process of changing its leadership was completed in March 2013.

«KINU-IMEMO International Conference on Korean Peninsula» joint Russian-Korean conference was held in IMEMO on March 26, 2013. Discussions at the conference focused on to share perspectives of Russian experts and Korean experts, to discuss about the new administrations’ policies toward North Korea, to deepen mutual understanding about Korea-Russia Relations.

A joint Russo-Japanese symposium was held in IMEMO jointly with the Tokyo-based Council on National Security Problems (ANPOKEN).