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Sergey Karaganov, Dean of the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, comments on today’s global economic and political changes and challenges.

Vasiliy Solodkov, Director of the HSE Banking Institute, comments on the current tensions between Great Britain and the EU continent.

Martin Gilman, Director of the HSE Center for Advanced Studies, on the relations between economics and politics.

Martin Gilman, Director of the HSE Center for Advanced Studies, comments on the results of the recent G20 summit and Russia's economic situation.

Timofey Bordachev, Deputy Dean for Strategic Planning at the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, comments on Russia's position concerning the situation in the Middle East.

Serge Karaganov, Dean of the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, comments on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s visit to Libya.

Alexei Portansky, Professor at the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, comments on the process of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization.

Serge Karaganov, Dean of the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, comments on Russian-American relations.

Sergey Alexashenko, Director for Macroeconomic Research at the HSE, comments on the candidacy of Grigory Marchenko to lead the IMF.

Leonid R. Syukiyaynen, Professor at the HSE Faculty of Law, comments on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

Martin Gilman comments on the meeting of the BRICS leaders.

Even low expectations can be disappointed. President Dmitry Medvedev and the other Group of 20 leaders, who are in Seoul for their fifth summit in two years on Thursday, cannot relish the prospect of a wasted trip and, even worse, of a wasted opportunity. Since these much-hyped gatherings began amid high expectations in November 2008, their value-added has declined, and few can anticipate meaningful results.

Martin Gilman, the Head of the SU-HSE Centre for Advanced Studies, comments Russia’s anti-crisis efforts within G20 framework.

Those expecting a bold initiative to come from the meeting of the Group of 20 in Washington that President Dmitry Medvedev will attend Saturday will be disappointed. Even the International Monetary Fund's managing director warned in a recent Financial Times article that comparisons between the G20 summit and the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 are overblown.