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Eduard Ponarin has decided to leave the position of the head of the Ronald F. Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research. Since October 1^st, 2021, Boris Sokolov, Senior Research Fellow, has taken over the responsibility.

In October 2021, under the guidance of Andrey Zyryanov, a practical course on diffusion-tensor tractography was held at the Center for Language and Brain. 

Researches of the Center for Language and Brain told the Journal Commersant about the difference in reading among different Russian-speaking people.

Radio Queen's University chatted with Professor John W. Berry about his lengthy and distinguished research and his election to the Royal Society as a Fellow.

In October, a two-day seminar entitled ‘Ageing and frailty in Norway and Russia’ was held by HSE University’s International Laboratory for Population and Health.  In addition to purely demographic results concerning the changing age structure of the population and growing life expectancy, most presentations were devoted to the comparative assessment of physical and cognitive status among elderly people, cardiovascular aging, as well as social and medical support for the elderly. We spoke with the organizers and participants of the seminar about their research findings and the implications for society and public health.

Domestic and foreign policies of leading countries reveal an ever more outstanding science and technology agenda. The participants of the XI International Academic Conference ‘Foresight and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy’, conducted on October 15–25, 2021, reviewed new aspects of doing joint R&D projects that the countries have considered and ways of securing competitive advantages of national science through strengthening ties with both businesses and authorities and engaging a wider audience.

This fall the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory will organize a free online course on the East Caucasian (alias Nakh-Daghestanian) language family. The course will start on November 3.

One of the events that opened the second day of the conference was the round table 'Higher education for indigenous peoples: international and Russian experience.' Despite the critically early time, the discussion of problem areas and of the constructive experience in creating an educational environment in universities that supports cultural diversity was rich and lively. The presented reports discussed the value orientations of the development of higher education for indigenous peoples, the problems of adaptation of indigenous peoples to the learning environment, the strengths and limitations of various organizational forms and educational practices.

The magazine celebrating 50 years of multiculturalism policy in Canada includes a contribution by John W. Berry.

On October 20, at the VI International scientific and practical conference 'Inclusive Education and Society: Strategies, Practices and Resources,' a panel discussion Inclusive Education in Post-Soviet Countries: Based on the Results of an International Survey' was held.