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At the beginning of June, SCImago Journal and Country Rank announced its 2015 rankings of journals indexed in the international academic citation database Scopus. Foresight and STI Governance, a journal published by the Higher School of Economics, placed 115 in the new ranking. Less than three years ago, the journal placed into the second quartile in the Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ranking, becoming the first Russian publication to rank in this category. In addition, Foresight was among the top-ten best Russian journals in the social sciences and humanities, according to the Scopus ranking.

Dates: 6-11 June 2016
Speakers: Professor Harrie de Swart (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Professor Hannu Nurmi (University of Turku).

The conference was organized by the International Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and it’s Applications (HSE, Moscow) from the 30^th of May to the 2^nd of June in honor of Professor Valentin Konakov's 70th anniversary

A monograph by the senior researcher of the Laboratory Savchenko A.V. has been released by Springer publishing company.

May 30th - June 1st the III International Research Conference "Culture in society, between groups and across generations", organized by the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research at the Expert Institute of the Higher School of Economics took place in Moscow.

Gerhard Wohlgenannt, an assistant professor at the Institute of Information Business of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, has several well-known articles in the field of Knowledge Engineering.

On May 27-28, ILSCR staff members Nadezhda Lebedeva, Alexander Tatarko, Zarina Lepshokova, Victoria Galyapina, Marina Kotova, Dmitry Dubrov and Maria Drobovtseva took part in the Fifth international scientific conference "Theoretical problems of ethnic and cross-cultural psychology".

A two-day seminar was held in the Saint-Petersburg’s HSE department on the 25th-26th of May and was conducted by the lecturers of Applied Social Psychology programme: Alyona Khaptsova and Olga Poluektova. The seminar’s topic was ‘Methodology of a Field Research: The Cost-Quality Balance’.

Master class on VLSM was held on May 26-27 in the Neurolinguistics Laboratory

On May 23 and 24, 2016 the Game Theory Laboratory of the HSE St Petersburg held its first international conference entitled "Game Theory and Mechanism Design", in memory of the late Victor Domanskiy.