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On 24 November John Berry (Chief Researcher Fellow of our laboratory, Professor of Queens University, Canada) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Patterns and determinants of immigrants' sense of belonging to Canada and their source country, and relationships with their well-being".

Elizabeth Plantan, Ph.D. candidate in Government at Cornell University, discusses her work at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID HSE) and life in Russia.

5th International Annual Research Conference “Cultural and Economic changes under cross-national perspective” successfully ended on Friday, November 20th. We were happy to see many old friends, colleagues and new participants in our LCSR network.

Christian Haerpfer, President of the World Values Association, has talked to HSE News Service about the World Values Survey and about the preparations underway for its new wave.

This Thursday, November 19, the Russian Council on International Affairs (INF) in conjunction with the United Nations Development Programme held a public webinar "Remittances: Central Asia and global experience" on. The Experts were Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE), Mihail Peleah (UNDP), Sergey Ryazantsev (ISPR RAS).

Research and development priorities should be set with the interests of the state, business community and general public in mind, since it is the public who will, in the end, be the most important consumers of the results of scientific research. Support for fundamental science must not come at the expense of the humanities, engineering and design – which all provide added value. A discussion on promising areas for development in Russian science opened the 5th International conference "Foresight and science, technology and innovation policy" organised by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge at HSE.

On the 18th of November member of the ID Lab, leading analyst of "PFPG" and "Parma-Management" Dmitri Timofeev makes the report: Non-Keynesian savings of Russians. 

On 17^th of November Ronald Inglehart gave a public lecture titled "Why do sociologists, psyhologists, economists and political scientists study the values?" in the Center for Digital October, Moscow.

5th International Annual Research Conference started this Monday in HSE, Moscow. The first day of the conference showed that the event attracted the record number of scientists from foreign countries, ranging from Argentina to Japan and the Middle East!

Lenta.ru published an interview with Tatiana Karabchuk, Deputy Director of LCSR and one of the HSE experts. The main topic of the discussion was the estimation of loss from car accidents in Russia.