The article provides an overview of the round table “University Management in Russia: Challenges and Solutions”, which was held as part of the VII International Nevsky Forum “The Role of Russia in the Formation of a Multipolar World: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects, Management Decisions”, held on June 21-23, 2023, in St. Petersburg based on the RANEPA. The round table was organized by the Department of Scientific and Information Development and Library Support and the Center for Advanced Social Research of the Institute of Social Sciences of the RANEPA as part of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Human Potential project, together with the Department of Scientific Work of the North-Western Institute of the RANEPA. The purpose of the round table was to search for effective managerial solutions to overcome such modern challenges by socio-humanitarian universities as: transformation of international relations and interactions; restriction of access to international databases of scientific information; the impossibility of achieving the strategic goals of Russia in the new realities with the help of old approaches.