Problems of Oriental Studies in the Russian Higher Educational Institutions (Experience of the Daghestan State University)
The article analyzes the most common problems that regional Oriental universities face nowadays, including the Daghestan State University. In particular, it is noted that the crisis in the field of the Oriental studies after its joining in 2013 the enlarged group of specialties “Political science and regional studies” can lead today to the destruction of established traditions of the modern school of Oriental studies. It can turn regional Oriental universities into common educational structures that do not differ, for example, from a Faculty of Foreign Languages or a Faculty of History. Today, in the regions, as before, there persists a narrow view of the specialty of Oriental studies, which is reduced to the study of a language alone.