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Olga Dragoy presented a report "Aphasia as a neuropsychological syndrome"

On May 12, Olga Dragoy, the head of the Neurolinguistics Laboratory, presented a talk "Aphasia as a neuropsychological syndrome" for staff and students of the Neurocognition and Theoretical Syntax Center, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, Italy.

Plans for water

Russia’s fresh water supply is among the largest in the world, but these resources are not always used efficiently. According to Yuri Golubkov, director of S&T Policy and Modernisation department of Renova Group of Companies, optimising the water sector management first of all requires sorting out organisational and legal issues, followed by solving technological problems. In the framework of a joint HSE — Renova foresight project, HSE experts analysed strategic approaches to managing the water sector suggesting four different scenarios.

Plans for water

Russia’s fresh water supply is among the largest in the world, but these resources are not always used efficiently. According to Yuri Golubkov, director of S&T Policy and Modernisation department of Renova Group of Companies, optimising the water sector management first of all requires sorting out organisational and legal issues, followed by solving technological problems. In the framework of a joint HSE — Renova foresight project, HSE experts analysed strategic approaches to managing the water sector suggesting four different scenarios.

Plans for water

Russia’s fresh water supply is among the largest in the world, but these resources are not always used efficiently. According to Yuri Golubkov, director of S&T Policy and Modernisation department of Renova Group of Companies, optimising the water sector management first of all requires sorting out organisational and legal issues, followed by solving technological problems. In the framework of a joint HSE — Renova foresight project, HSE experts analysed strategic approaches to managing the water sector suggesting four different scenarios.

Figure of the day: 44%

of heads of Russian companies believe they do not have enough professional knowledge and skills for career development and professional growth. They would like to receive additional specialized training or education. These data were obtained in a survey of company heads in six sectors of the economy in 2014, which was conducted as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations study by HSE and the Levada Centre.

Increasingly more Russians are getting into the global Net

Almost three quarters of Russian households have access to the Internet, and almost half of them use the Web daily. 43% of the respondents access the Net with mobile devices, 74% actively use social networks, and every fifth person uploads their own content to websites, experts of the HSE Institute or Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge found out in the framework of the Monitoring of Information Society project.

New LCSR partner!

LCSR signed partnership agreement with SESRI (the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute), Qatar University.

Lecture at the University of Witten-Herdecke

Professor Andrei Yakovlev, director of the International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development, delivered a guest lecture at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany. 

Information Society Indicators in the Russian Federation: 2015

This data book continues the series of annual publications by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE ISSEK). It presents statistical data on ICT infrastructure, activities of ICT sector enterprises, and content and media sector. It also presents summary indicators of business activity of enterprises rendering IT services, and ICT usage by enterprises, households, and individuals.

More materials available on WVS website!

World Value Survey website has been updated to include the first official release of the WVS 1981-2014 longitudinal file.