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On November 25, the Cyberdom space in Moscow hosted a session titled "Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment for People with Disabilities: Realities and Opportunities," organized as part of the All-Russian Inclusive Forum "Open for All." Among the participants were Elena Yarskaya-Smirnova, head of our laboratory, and Igor Novikov, research intern at ILSIR and head of Everland.

From November 12 to 14, 2025, the 7th All-Russian Sociological Congress "Sociology and Society: The Formation and Functioning of Public Memory" was held in Moscow. On November 13, as part of the congress, staff from the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (ILSIR) held Roundtable Discussion #13, "Are Outsiders Allowed? Definitions and Challenges of an Inclusive Society."

On November 26, the 106th session of the Formal Philosophy research seminar was held.

Researchers at the HSE Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics in St. Petersburg, led by Sergey Koltcov, have learned to quickly reduce the size of neural networks without losing quality using statistical physics methods.

On November 19, 2025, Ilya Naidanov, a graduate of the PhD program in Applied Economics, presented at the research seminar of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab). He shared findings from the study titled "The Impact of Social Media Comments on the Profitability of Russian Companies," conducted jointly with Marina Zaveryaeva, a research fellow at the laboratory. The research was carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) grant № 23-78-10149 "Factors of Intensification of SME Resources under External Uncertainty."

Within the framework of the HSE University Expert and analytical forum, a session of experts from the Institute for Public Administration and Governance (HSE University), including staff from the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration was held. The participants discussed their experience in attracting young HSE researchers to expert and analytical work, as well as the specifics of interaction with experienced experts and representatives of a government customer. 

The neural network analysed nearly a million 12×12 m plots and found that the rate of shrub spread varies from 2.4% to 26.1% per decade, depending on local conditions. The study showed that mature shrubs prefer well-drained slopes, while new colonisation occurs on flatter areas, which opens up opportunities for predicting further shrubification of the Arctic under climate change conditions

Articles by members of the IL LogLinFP have been published in the journal "Logical Investigations".

The article "NP-Completeness of the Hanabi Game with Minimal Parameters" by Anastasia Onoprienko has been published in the journal "Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mathematics, Informatics, Control Processes".

On November 21-22, a conference dedicated to World Philosophy Day and the Days of Philosophy in Saint Petersburg was held, where Maxim Evstigneev and Anna Moiseeva delivered presentations.