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Capitalism and Nationalism in Post-Communism and West European Countries

A report by Julia Zelikova at the LCSR regular seminar

Tula Region: Launch of Cluster Policy

On 23 April, at a coordination meeting chaired by the region’s governor Vladimir Gruzdev, was presented draft Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of the Tula Region until 2030, prepared by the HSE with overall coordination bythe Institute of Public Administration and Municipal Management. The two most important elements of the strategy – “Strategy for Innovation Development of the Region” and “Concept of the Regional Cluster Policy” – were developed by the ISSEK experts.

"Obedient" mayors are necessary to inexperienced governors

Appointment of mayors instead of their election most often happens in the richest and poor cities. Governors-beginners also prefer to work with "the person" at a post of the town governor. G. Garifullina and A.Shubenkova's work

Lectures by Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre of Excellence at University of Turku Hannu Salonen were held

The lectures on "On efficiency of equilibria in coordination problems" and "Congestion and coordination problems in networks" were held from April 22 to April 23.

BIGSSS Best Paper Award

The award has been bestowed on Evgenia Bystrov

The results of the analysis of the views of ordinary residents of the North Caucasus Federal District on the problems of mutual adaptation of migrants and host population

On April 18 Victoria N. Galyapina, senior researcher of our laboratory, PhD in psychology, took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "The results of the analysis of the views of ordinary residents of the North Caucasus Federal District on the problems of mutual adaptation of migrants and host population". Read more...

Ressentiment and growth of anti-Americanism in Russia: change in elite and mass attitudes during 1993 – 2009

A report by Boris Sokolov at the LCSR regular seminar

On Wednesday, April 17 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was hold.

Speaker: N. Zagoruyko (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Title: "The function of rival similarity and compactness"

International conference "Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers" in London, UK

In April 2013 researchers of International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research - Nadezhda Lebedeva, Alexander Tatarko and Tatiana Ryabichenko - took part in international interdisciplinary conference "Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers" in the UK (London). Read more...

War is Going out of Fashion

With rising incomes, people are less accepting of war. In recent decades in Russia, as in many countries around the world, the number of citizens willing to give their lives for their country has declined. These are findings of joint research by Ronald Inglehart and HSE.