The present “Eastern Tea Party” of the Oriental Courier Staff, this time organized with the help of Zoom, targeted the recently elected Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences — Alikber K. Alikberov and was held by our correspondent Marina Starodubtseva and Editor-in-chief Dinara Dubrovskaya. In a difficult 2020, Alikber Alikberov presented his doctoral dissertation, won the election of the Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, and is full of energy, plans, and creative endeavors. On the problems of Russia and the Middle East, on great and novice orientalists, on the inscriptions on the walls of ancient Derbent, on mysticism and the number 19, on the kings of Oriental studies and money invented by the Phoenicians, read in this interview.