Over 450 international students from all over the globe currently study at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences. Some of them have recorded video greetings, talked about celebrations in their home countries, and shared their ideas on how to spend the winter holidays in Russia.

On December 15, the Second Sino-Russian Economic Cooperation Workshop–Youth Forum took place online. The event was organised jointly by HSE University and the Shanghai University School of Economics. Anastasia Stepanova, one of the workshop organisers, talked to the HSE News Service about cooperation with Shanghai University and the topics covered by the workshop.

Decemberfest is an annual festival for first-year students, teachers, and applicants of the HSE School of Foreign Languages. The school currently offers courses in nine foreign languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Turkish, and Hebrew.

Diksha Khosla, from India, studies on the Master’s in Strategic Corporate Finance at HSE University-Moscow. Diksha spoke to the HSE News Service about the challenges and opportunities available to international students in Russia, adjusting to the Moscow vibe, and her efforts to celebrate Indian culture at HSE University.

Anton Klyuev, fifth-year student of the Bachelor’s in Asian and African Studies, and Artem Saenko, graduate of the same programme, have won the European round of the Qatar’s Debate competition, beating 11 teams from non-Arabic-speaking countries.

Victoria Dobrynskaya, Assistant Professor at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, has analysed the price dynamics of cryptocurrencies from 2014 to 2021 and investigated the association between downside risks and average returns in the cryptocurrency market. As it turns out, cryptocurrencies exhibiting a greater risk tend to yield higher average returns. 

The Strategic Development Programme Office has launched an English-language website to promote the implementation of HSE University’s integrated development programme. The website is an ‘entry point’ for international partners and students, informing them about the university’s strategic priorities, goals, and plans.

HSE Perm graduate Anna Bykova built an academic career while working as the head of the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises of the Perm Region. In this interview, Ms Bykova explained how to express leadership skills in an academic environment, why graduates are reluctant to go into the public sector, and why an HSE professor needs expertise in track.

The movement of human eyes mirrors the cognitive processes in the brain. Today, neuroscientists can precisely monitor their parameters. Video-oculography (eye tracking) holds the key to understanding phenomena related to language perception and production processes. IQ.HSE interviewed Andriy Myachikov, from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, about the method.