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The report “The Water Sector: Global Challenges and Long-term Trends in Innovation Development” is published. It presents the results of the foresight study “Global Challenges and Long-term Trends in Innovation Development” conducted by HSE ISSEK and sponsored by the Renova Group of Companies in May 2014 — June 2015.

The report “The Water Sector: Global Challenges and Long-term Trends in Innovation Development” is published. It presents the results of the foresight study “Global Challenges and Long-term Trends in Innovation Development” conducted by HSE ISSEK and sponsored by the Renova Group of Companies in May 2014 — June 2015.

Tatiana Karabchuk (Deputy Director of LCSR) and Anita Moiseeva (LCSR research assistant) became co-authors of the analytical report "Integration Barometer EDB - 2015" and wrote sections about territorial and demographic differences in integration preferences of the population of CIS countries.

The annual conference was devoted to neurobiological basis for language.

On 15 October Elena Yureneva, MD, Executive Director of the Discerning Health, health worker of Community Development International, senior researcher at clinical safety of Merck Clinical Research Team Management (Pennsylvania, USA) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Questions of Euthanasia".

Speaker: Allan Drazen (Department of Economics, University of Maryland, USA)
Title: Kosher Pork

of Russians currently expect that Russia’s economy will worsen next year. In the second quarter of 2015, 27% of respondents held this opinion. These data are presented in a new Monitoring of Consumer Sentiment of the Russian Population in the third quarter of 2015, which was prepared by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK. 

Speaker: Allan Drazen, Professor (Department of Economics, University of Maryland, USA)
Title: Legislative Politics (part 2)

New article by Anna V. Nemirovskaya, LCSR Senior Research Fellow, and Valentin G. Nemirovskiy titled "The Origins and Subjects of Fear for Siberians: Sociological Research in the Regions of Eastern and Western Siberia" was published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies "Sibirica".

On September 24, 2015, a delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST) visited HSE ISSEK. During the visit, Dr. Yi-Bing Lin, Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, a world class IT expert, gave an interview to the HSE news portal, in which he shared his view of the future of IT, talked about the potential of partnership between Russia and Taiwan in different areas of science, cited some theses of Karl Marx’s theory and showed pencil drawings of Russian historical figures that he had made himself.