On May 21, 2014, the PhD Dissertation by Maria A. Soloshcheva, the National Research University - Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg Branch, The Qing Empire Policy Towards Tibet during the Reign of the Yongzheng Emperor (1723-1735) [Политика империи Цин в отношении Тибета в период правления императора Юнчжэна (1723—1735 гг.)] was successfully defended.

The PhD Dissertation supervisor - Prof. Dr. V.L. Uspensky, St Petersburg State University.

The official opponents - Dr. A.I. Andreev, the St Petersburg Branch of the Institute of the History of Sciences and Technics, RAS, and Dr. D.V. Ivanov, the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, RAS.

The neutral organization - the Russian State University for Humanities.

The PhD dissertation, its synopsis and all the reviews are available in Russian on the Russian version of the IOM web-site