Research & Expertise news at HSE University

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

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.

The first seminar of the joint Russian-German sociological project in labor market studies was held last year. The project is continuing and the next seminar will be held at the HSE in April 2009.

Recently the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev dismissed four local governors. Rostislav Turovsky, professor of the HSE Department of Public Policy comments on this governors reshuffle to the Moscow News. The expert said it was a factor in the background.

Yevgeny Gavrilenkov, the SU HSE Professor, speaks on Russian governmental policy options for the Moscow News.