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The article «Was ist es, das Russland zu verteidigen versucht?» by Andrei Yakovlev, ICSID and IIMS Director was published in the journal Russland-Analysen.

In Tula, a city packed with the Russian defence industry, Californian musician David Brown and fan Pavel Bazdyrev have been making high-end microphones since 2014, taking advantage of cheap labor and second hand machinery from Kalashnikov arms plants. Vasily Abashkin, Leading Expert at the Centre for Industrial Policy HSE ISSEK, told Associated Press that the engineering sector in Russia has not yet caught up with foreign countries to bridge the gap of the last two decades.

HSE has started recruitment for post-doctoral positions for the next academic year. International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) has proposed 5 research topics for post-doc fellows - social capital, network analysis, economic history, collective action, and political economy of development.

Center for Language and Brain launched a new collaboration project together with the speech therapy center Children's Academy of Speech, which provides intervention and treatment for children with language-learning difficulties or delays in cognitive and behavioural development.

It is our pleasure to announce that the 10th Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference will take place in Moscow, Russian Federation. The call for abstracts is already opened. and will last till 15th March.

Dirk Meissner, Professor at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge and the Academic supervisor of the Master’s Programme ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation’, has talked to HSE English-language news bulletin, The HSE Look, about programme development and achievements.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow, who was an Honorary Professor of the Higher School of Economics and a Nobel Prize-winning economist, passed away on Tuesday, February 21^st. He was 95.

Daniel Borchman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Technische Universität Dresden

The Higher School of Economics Laboratory for Decision Choice and Analysis Laboratory (DeCAn) in Moscow, Russia invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the field of choice theory, mechanism design and decision making.

63% of IT companies’ managers do not see the Western sanctions as a threat to their business. This was established by the HSE ISSEK Centre for Business Tendencies Studies in the course of monitoring business climate in the IT services sector.