Dmitry Suslov, expert of the HSE Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, comments on U.S. –Russian relations .
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Report for the meeting of the Russian-U.S. section of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Moscow, June 2009) by Sergei Karaganov, Dmitry Suslov and Timofei Bordachev was published by RIA Novosti.
On June 3rd Jayantha Dhanapala, the President of the international Pugwash Movement, gave a lecture at the HSE. His speech was dedicated to the prospects of concluding new agreements on nuclear weapons, but he also commented on the main problems of international security today.
M. Gilman, the HSE professor, is among observers who weigh up chances of Russian ruble as a leading regional reserve currency.
Olga Kuzina, the superior research fellow at the HSE Lab for Studies in Economic Sociology, reveals social impact of the crises.
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.