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Ekaterina presented her paper “Bridging or Bonding? Preferences for Redistribution and Social Capital in Russia” (co-authored with A. Govorun and D. Ivanov) at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca on December 24^th, 2017.

of the fundings are spent on technical sciences in Russia. These data were published in the newsletter "The budget allocation for scientific researches and inventions" in the HSE ISSEK "Science, Technology, Innovations" series (in Russian).

Graduate student of mathematical faculty and research-intern of the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry Kurnosov Nikon successfully defended his Thesis for a degree of Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) entitled "Betti numbers and trianalytic subvarieties of hyperkahler manifolds" on January, 26. Mathematical faculty and Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry congratulates Nikon and his scientific supervisor M.S. Verbitsky.

On January 26, Lucia Bombieri (postgraduate student in the Department of Psychology, HSE), took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "The influence of norms and social identities on children's responses to bullying".

In order to measure the extent of Internet spread in the Russian Federation​, experts of HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Information Society developed a concept for statistical monitoring on request of the ANO “The Coordination Center for TLD RU”. The paper presents conceptual, methodological, and organisational frameworks for the study.

We are very pleased to congratulate our colleague Boris Gutkin with publication in Nature Medicine, entitled: "Nicotine reverses hypofrontality in animal models of addiction and schizophrenia".

Bloomberg: Russian consumer demand, which came undone quickly during a recession, will take time to put together again. The pieces don’t fit because households continue to embrace thrift even as the ruble tests new highs and inflation at the slowest in history boosts purchasing power. HSE ISSEK Centre for Business Tendency Studies poll results showed the financial situation worsened for 39 percent of respondents in the past 12 months. The agency quotes Georgy Ostapkovich, the director of the Centre.

CEOs of travel companies complain about lack of demand. Over half of the CEOs of travel companies and hotels say that the lack of demand is the key factor which limits their development. These data were presented in information and analytical material “Business climate in service sector in 4Q 2016”, prepared by HSE ISSEK Centre for Business Tendency Studies.

WVSA Secretariat cordially invites all the WVS members, friends, partners and data-users to submit your abstracts for participation in the WVS thematic session “Social transformations and value change in Europe and beyond: using World Values Survey data for analysis” which will be chaired by the WVSA President Professor Christian Haerpfer and which will be held during the 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association on August, 29 – September, 1, 2017 in Athens in Greece!

International Laboratory of Intangible-driven economy participated in the XXII workshop on Accounting and Management Control on the 19-20 January, organized by University of Vigo, Spain. A series of investigations were presented.