Growing Partnership with the HSE Contributes to Comparative Social Research on Russia and Germany
Katharina Blum has longstanding ties with Russia, having studied in the Faculty of Philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She knows and loves Russian literature, especially Mikhail Bulgakov, as well as those places in Moscow where the action takes place in his novel The Master and Margarita. She studies the Russian and German elite through comparative analysis, as well as other topics common to Russia and Germany.
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Dmitry Medvedev Discusses the New Challenges of Socio-Economic Policy with HSE Experts
On April 2, 2014, Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, participated in the roundtable discussion ‘Innovation and Social Policy in the New Context’ as part of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Russian Minister of Finance: ‘We Can’t Live Lavishly in Difficult Times’
Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, spoke at opening of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Educational Migration Promotes Russia’s National Interests
Nadezhda Radina, Professor at the HSE Faculty of Humanities in Nizhny Novgorod, studied psychological well-being among foreign students in Russia and presented her findings in a report ‘Educational Migration in the Context of the New Migration Policy of Russia’, which was prepared for the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
HSE Launches Two International Laboratories together with NES and Skolkovo
The HSE will study Russia’s economic history together with colleagues from the New Economic School (NES). The project with Skolkovo will address problems of law and social development in the contemporary world. International researchers will be involved in both laboratories.
An Excellent Platform for Academic Debate and Public Education
Dr. Marek Dabrowski, CASE Fellow at the CASE — Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw, Poland, has participated in every HSE April Conference since 2001, missing just the 2000 inaugural event. A professor with decades of experience in the field of economics, Dr. Dabrowski’s current areas of expertise range from monetary and fiscal policies and political economies in transition to perspectives on European integration and European Neighborhood Policy. In advance of next week’s XV HSE April Conference, Dr. Dabrowski kindly took part in a brief interview with the HSE News Service.
The XV April International Conference on Economic and Social Development
The conference opens on the 1st April 2014 at the HSE with the participation of the World Bank and the IMF. The Deputy Chairman of the Conference Programme Committee Andrei Yakovlev spoke about some of the key sessions, lectures and seminars to look out for.
1,800
Nearly 1,800 have registered to attend the XV April International Academic Conference. Registration has ended for the upcoming XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, which will be held on April 1-4, 2014. Six countries—Germany, Italy, the USA, Ukraine, Finland, and France—account for almost half of all the foreign reports. Last year, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the USA, France, and Japan were among the leaders.
The Importance of a Good Diagnosis
Sebastian Galiani, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and Visiting Professor at Universidad de San Andres, will deliver a public lecture at the HSE’s XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. In advance of next week's Conference, the HSE News Service conducted this brief interview with Professor Galiani.
Russians Respect Doctors and Lawyers
Many Russians, when asked whether certain occupations, particularly those of a politician or an academic, are prestigious or desirable,will give a different answer depending on whether they are refering to their own attitudes, perceived societal attitudes, or preferred career choices for their children. So Konstantin Fursov and Valentina Polyakova, research fellows at the HSE's ISSEK, found in their study Monitoring Innovative Behaviour in the Russian Population.
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