Labor as value and mission
The first seminar of the joint Russian-German sociological project in labor market studies was held last year. The project is continuing and the next seminar will be held at the HSE in April 2009.
Searching political tools for financial issues
Recently the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev dismissed four local governors. Rostislav Turovsky, professor of the HSE Department of Public Policy comments on this governors reshuffle to the Moscow News. The expert said it was a factor in the background.
Counter deficit measures by Gavrilenkov
Yevgeny Gavrilenkov, the SU HSE Professor, speaks on Russian governmental policy options for the Moscow News.
City within city – Laval within Quebec
An agreement on cooperation between the Moscow HSE University and the Laval University, one of the major centers for higher education in Canada, was singed last year. But the real partnership is going to start this year.
Searching for relevant national currency rate
Some SU HSE Experts are reading the tea leaves to clear up once more urgent financial issues for the Moscow News.
Currency rate provision
Martin Gillman, the HSE Professor and the Head of the Centre for Advanced Studies comments on the Russian ruble prospects to the Moscow Times.
Marijuana case with stern face
On January 20, the case of the schoolboy from Alaska was studied carefully at the HSE Faculty of Law students’ case club. It seems that Frederick’s freedom of speech had been violated. Without that important social topic the case might have been treated as insignificant.
United by goals and ambitions
Interview with Professor Egie Axer, Head of the Warsaw University Institute for Interdisciplinary Research “Artes Liberales”, one of the international partners of the HSE Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (ITHSH).
From Russia with esteem
On December 18, the HSE School of Russian Studies graduates received their diplomas. The SRS Dean congratulated Dana Nenova, Serge Morrella, and Alexander Chernyak on successful graduation. The HSE News Service interviewed them.
SU-HSE and GMU cooperation: teaching across the ocean
A new course “Political Analysis and Human rights: Special Issues and Global Context” has been introduced by the SU HSE Institute of Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (ITHS). This is a joint HSE and George Mason University (GMU) course taught in English.