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From May 30 to June 19 students can vote for HSE’s best teachers of the academic year. This year students and alumni can submit their scores online. You can choose your candidate from the faculty list — no more than two lecturers and two teachers conducting workshops or practical training — in LMS module ‘Rate Your Courses’ right after the required assessment of your teachers and courses. If your candidate is not on the list, you can indicate him or her in the ‘Other teacher (specify full name)’ category. In addition to recognition, the best teachers will also receive a bonus.

Russian small towns risk being depleted of young people, as three-quarters of school leavers are planning to migrate to regional centres, Moscow or St. Petersburg in search of a better life, while just 4% are prepared to stay in their home communities.

Demographic Review" is a scientific peer-reviewed open-accessed journal, published quarterly in Russian and once a year in English. We consider the establishment of our journal an important event in the life of our professional community, as well as of the entire community of social scientists. The thematic research range is quite broad: demographic processes themselves and the bordering interaction areas of demography and other branches of social knowledge (economic, social, medical, historical, mathematical demography, population geography, etc.).We expect to see the papers of researchers from different Russian and foreign scientific centers on the pages of the "Demographic Review". We want to make a good journal and this can only be done together.We also hope to find an interested reader who cares about the demographic problems of the country and the world. We hope, dear readers, for your response and fruitful dialogue with you.

XVII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Plenary session 'Migration in the global context'.

MODERATOR: E. Yasin – Academic Supervisor, HSE
SPEAKERS: A. Vishnevsky – Professor, Director, Institute of Demography, HSE
                 M. Denisenko – Deputy Director, Institute of Demography, HSE
PARTICIPANTS :
                 Z. Zayonchkovskaya – Head of Laboratory for Migration, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences
                 V. Mukomel – Head of the Department of Studying of Migration and Integration Processes, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science
                V. Postavnin – President, “Migration XXI Century” Foundation
                I. Tsapenko – Head of the Socioeconomic Development Sector, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Andrei Melville, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, encourages students to actively participate in the assessment and explains why student involvement in assessment procedure is important to the management of the Faculty.

Public Policy Department invites you to participate in the Spring School, taught entirely in English, from 13 to 19 of May!

Carol S. Leonard, Leading Research Fellow at the HSE Institute of Regional Studies and Urban Planning and Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Polytical Analisys and Public Policy, Population and Development, has been at the HSE since 2011. She talked to HSE News Service about the things she likes about her job, the cultured and energetic environment at HSE, and about the changes she sees across Russia since her undergraduate days when she first became interested in the country, its language and people.

On January 29, Thomas Espy, a student in the Population and Development Master’s programme at HSE, presented a report entitled ‘Mapping Xenophobia in Russia’. During his presentation, he highlighted his paper’s linear analysis of xenophobic attacks in the Russian Federation and a network analysis focusing on nationalist groups, as well as recommended areas of focus for Russian policymakers.