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Professor Inglehart gave a class for the students of CSR MA program

Professor Ronald Inglehart gave a class for the students of International Master Program in Comparative Social Research. It was a great opportunity to meet the Scientific Supervisor in person!

Understanding Politics behind the Scenes from the Public Appearances of Elites

On Tuesday, May 26, Franziska Keller, Ph.D. candidate at New York University and visiting researcher of the HSE International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development, presented a report called ‘Shaking hands in public. What elite co-appearances tell us about the politics behind the scenes’. This seminar marks the 9th joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development hosted by the International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development and NES Centre for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions.

On Thursday, May 21 a Scientific Seminar of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis was held

On Thursday, May 21 a Scientific Seminar of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis was held
Speaker: Dmitry Dagaev (Deputy Vice Rector, Associate Professor at Department of Higher Mathematics), Alex Suzdaltsev (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Title: 'Seeding, Competitive Intensity and Quality in Knock-out Tournaments'

Leonid Gokhberg: “Innovation development in the regions is a single option factor of the country’s economic growth”

On 20 May, 2015 the third issue of the Russian Regional Innovation Development Rating published by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge was presented at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). Researchers rated 83 regions by the integral indicator — Russian Regional Innovation Index (RRII).

HSE International Laboratories Celebrate 5 Year Anniversary

The 102 issue of Okna Rosta (Windows of Growth) magazine is coming out. It is all about HSE’s International Laboratories. Deputy Vice-Rector Marina Litvintseva explains how the laboratories work and about their role in HSE’s strategic development while the chief researchers of the first and most successful laboratories, Fedor Bogomolov (Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry) and Ronald Inglehart (Laboratory of Comparative Social Research) tell readers about the major achievements of five years hard work.

On Wednesday, May 20 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held.

On Wednesday, May 20 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held.
Speaker: Andranik Tangian (WSI in the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, Düsseldorf, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 
Title: Is the left-right alignment of parties outdated? The German case

Leonid Gokhberg: “Innovation development in the regions is a single option factor of the country’s economic growth”

On 20 May, 2015 the third issue of the Russian Regional Innovation Development Rating published by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge was presented at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). Researchers rated 83 regions by the integral indicator — Russian Regional Innovation Index (RRII).

HSE International Laboratories Celebrate 5 Year Anniversary

It is five years since the HSE began setting up international laboratories. Ronald Inglehart and Eduard Ponarin reflected on the results of the work conducted last year and on the achievements of the LCSR.

Development of the ICT infrastructure in Russia in 2014

Internet traffic in 2014 has increased by almost a third (29%); the volume of mobile networks’ traffic grew by 3%. The current level of Russian ICT infrastructure allowed to significantly increase availability of network technologies and services provided on their basis, including public services: one third of the population (35%) who have used public services in 2014 have done so via the Internet. This is reported in the ISSEK newsletter presenting the results of the HSE ongoing “Information Society Monitoring” project.

The fifth international conference on Network Analysis (NET 2015) is organized by LATNA lab.

The conference will take place in Nizhny Novgorod (HSE building, Rodionova St., room 209), on May 18-20. All are invited to join the event!