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On June 3 Irina Prusova (Research Fellow, Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Psychology of Social Inequality, HSE University) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Reminders of Death and Political Ideas about the Ideal State in the Countries of the Post-Soviet Space".

On Wednesday, June 2, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted an Institute of Control Sciences seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".

Veronika Ghukasyan presented the results of her research from the 3rd-year coursework, written under the supervision of Petr Parshakov.

Iuliia Naidenova presented the first results of a new study “Broadcasts versus highlights: what does a modern consumer prefer?”, conducted jointly with Petr Parshakov

On May 20 Sofia Nartova-Bochaver (Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Leading Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Climate Change Denial: The Role of Cultural and Personal Individualism/Collectivism (Case Study Nine Countries)".

All-Moscow Seminar "Mathematical Methods for Analysis of Optimal Decisions in Economics, Business and Politics" took place on 19th of May.

The head of the International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation Dmitry Leontiev gave an interview.

ANR-Lab analyst and MASNA and MDNA teacher Elena Beilina and research assistant Tamara Shcheglova entered the Higher School of Economics postgraduate study programmes. As many as ten graduate students now work with them in the laboratory!

Ronald Inglehart, the founding father of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, passed away on May 8th. Despite a serious illness, he worked until the last days of his life: last December, his book Religion's Sudden Decline was published by Oxford University Press, and in recent months he has been working on a new monograph on China. The death of the world-famous scientist was responded by the World Values Survey Association (WVSA), the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the University of Michigan, as well as many other organizations, associations and a huge number of colleagues around the world. The words of memory and recollections about Inglehart were also published by his colleagues from the LCSR, which has recently been named after him.