The 10th International Academic Conference on economic and social development in Russia has started at the HSE. Katerina Rylko, the HSE News service correspondent, interviewed some delegates about different aspects of the event.

Olga Kuzina, the superior research fellow at the HSE Lab for Studies in Economic Sociology, reveals social impact of the crises.

On March 20, the HSE Academic Council approved 11 Masters` programmes.

Y. Gavrilenkov speaks on the global economic crisis and Russian economic recovery for the Moscow Times. He believes that Russian response should differ from the policies adopted by other governments.

The SU-HSE professor Y. Nadorshin comments Kazakh President N. Nazarbayev initiative to establish common currency "yevraz" for five former Soviet republics.

The HSE Nizhniy Novgorod team won the Russian round  of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held in Moscow in February. So the HSE team will be Russia’s main representative during the Jessup 2009 International Rounds.

Ukraine lurched nearer towards an economic precipice on Thursday after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened to cut off gas to the country for the second time this year over unpaid bills.

By now almost everyone on the planet has felt to one degree or another the most virulent global economic crisis since the Great Depression. Its largely unanticipated destructive force has humiliated once-mighty financial institutions and companies, humbled economists, devastated investors, scared consumers and challenged public authorities around the world.

On February 3, a recent US Supreme Court judgment concerning warrantless detainment was studied at the HSE case club.

Martin Gilman the head of the HSE Centre for advanced studies comments on the Russian economy nearest prospective. According to Gilman, domestic producers are to benefit from the crisis.