Why LSE I think I deserve an LSE scholarship because I was offered a place to study in LSE. I believe it is wrong when an offer holder has to reject the proposal only because of financial need. To my regret, this may be my case. I am a student who always does it best – every year I graduated from the school only with distinct marks, and brought all the effort to be the best student in every subject ranging from Literature to Chemistry. The key is that I have never been forced to study perfectly by parents or teachers because I enjoy the process of studying itself. One of the jokes about me is that studying is my hobby. Although, the school gave me quite good education, it was never enough for me. I participated in different Olympiads (intellectual competitions), and I was often successful. For example, in 2016 I became the winner of all-Russian Olympiad in Social Science. I always attended different additional courses and lectures to broad my mind because the knowledge is the power in the modern world of information. My parents both studied in Moscow, in USSR. They graduated from good universities, but they couldn’t even dream that they could study abroad because of the political situation. Today due to the change of politics, I have such a possibility, but there is another obstacle that I faced with – financial. My academic interests are quite various. My choice of a degree in International relations was not random, and I was not simply captured by a tempting career of a diplomat. From the very childhood, I was fond of history, but the profession of a historian is not for me. I think that studying of history is necessary to enhance people’s lives in the current world. With the help of history, our purpose is not to repeat the mistakes of the past. One of the ways we can do that is to improve the relationships among countries, reduce the number of conflicts, and guarantee human rights. Apart from history, I always enjoyed learning about the people’s cultures – every experience was different from the previous one. The learning of foreign languages has always been exciting and never boring for me, so today I speak well English and French. The knowledge of three widely spoken languages (including my native Russian) is valuable for a person who wants to make a career in International relations sphere. Moreover, I find that it is extremely important today to have a skill to solve conflicts and find the best decisions.