Oleg Budnitskii, Natalia Zubarevich, Mikhail Fedotov, Receive Yegor Gaidar Awards
The winners of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation were announced on November 17, and HSE staff were among those recognized in three nominations.
The ‘For Outstanding Contribution in the Field of History’ award was given to Director of The International Centre for History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, Oleg Budnitskii, for his book ‘Human Rights and Empire: V.A. Maklakov – M.A.Aldanov. Correspondence 1929-1957’. A letter from Vassily Maklakov, lawyer, Constitutional Democrat (Cadet) party Central Committee member, member of parliament in the 2nd – 4th State Dumas, and later head of the Office for Russian Refugees’ Affairs in Paris, and Mark Aldanov, one of the most popular Russian émigré writers, cover topics including arguments that took place among émigrés about their attitudes to the Soviet state, the Vlasov movement, and the collaboration issue taken more broadly, about the activity of a number of post-war émigré political organizations, and about major émigré figures: Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kerensky, Sergei Melgunov, Boris Nicolaevsky, and others.
The award ‘For Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Economics’ was given to the Russian economist and geographer, Director of the Regional Programme at the Independent Institute for Social Policy Research Natalia Zubarevich. She is also the Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies of Income and Living Standards, at the HSE Institute for Social Policy.
The award ‘For Activities Contributing to the Development of Civil Society’ was given to the Chair of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov. He heads HSE’s UNESCO Department on Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights.
The Yegor Gaidar Award was established in 2010. Its winners have included Academic Supervisor at the HSE Evgeny Yasin, Director of the HSE’s Centre for Labour Market Studies Vladimir Gimpelson and his deputy Rostislav Kapelyushnikov. Last year the award ‘For Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Economics’ regognized Director of HSE’s Institute of Demography Anatoly Vishnevsky.
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