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On May 5, the fourth meeting of the "Laboratory for Diversity Research" was held. It was dedicated to the theme of "Multinational state".

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

From April 15 to 23 in Nizhny Novgorod, members of the Center for Language and Brain conducted a study among pupils in grades 2 and 4.

Pre-defense of Yulia Skokova's Ph.D. thesis 'The movement of election observers in Russia: social composition, factors and dynamics of development' was successfully held within the framework of the meeting of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research on April 29.

This report presented by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE ISSEK) is dedicated to the statistical measurement of the creative economy of Moscow.

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.

The article "Active Inference and Abduction" written by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen and Majid D. Beni was published in the academic journal “Biosemiotics”.

On May 13, the regular seminar of the Modern Demography series was held. At the seminar, Inna Daniliva (Research Fellow of the International laboratory for population and health NRU HSE, Research Scientist of the Laboratory of demographic data of Max Planck Institute for demographic research) the topic "The issues of temporal consistency of cause-of-death data within the ICD-10 period"

On April 23 the article "The role of intercultural competence, in the relationship between intercultural experiences and creativity among students" by Maria Bultseva and Nadezhda Lebedeva is available online.