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British Scholar on Exploring Russian History

Volga river embankment
On February 9, the HSE International Laboratory 'Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective' hosted Janet Hartley (London School of Economics), who presented her recent monograph The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River. The presentation was part of a joint lecture series between the Laboratory and The Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. HSE news service spoke with Janet Hartley about her interest in Russia, her experience travelling and doing research in Russia, and the books she has written on Russia.

Protect Your Faces

Protect Your Faces
HSE and the Voznesensky Center team up to stage a play based on a banned 1970 production by Yuri Lyubimov

Lost in Recalculation: How to Estimate the Scale of the Soviet Economy and Its Rate of Growth

‘Bolshevichka’ Garment factory, 1967
Researchers trying to compare economic data of the USSR and capitalist countries face questions of the comprehensiveness, accessibility, and reliability of data on Soviet economic production and growth. At an online seminar hosted by the HSE University International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, Assistant Professor Ilya Voskoboynikov (Faculty of Economic Sciences, HSE University) presented an overview of available approaches to studying the absolute size of the Soviet economy and its growth rates.

Anatoly Vishnevsky: ‘A Man from the Third Billion’

Anatoly Vishnevsky: ‘A Man from the Third Billion’
Anatoly Vishnevsky, HSE Distinguished Professor and Director of the HSE Institute of Demography, died  at the age of 85. Levada Centre Director Lev Gudkov, writer Denis Dragunsky, and film maker Andrey Smirnov describe Vishnevsky’s contributions to demography and social history in a film by the HSE School of Art and Design.

HSE Workshop "Logic in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Century of Interpretations" in the World Logic Day

HSE Workshop "Logic in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A Century of Interpretations" in the World Logic Day


The Linguistic convergence laboratory conducted an online course on Nakh-Daghestanian languages in October - December 2020

The Linguistic convergence laboratory conducted an online course on Nakh-Daghestanian languages in October - December 2020
The Linguistic convergence laboratory organized an open course in English about the main area of ​​expertise of the laboratory - the languages ​​of the Nakh-Daghestanian (also known as East Caucasian) language family.

HSE Among Top 5% of Universities in QS EECA Ranking

HSE Among Top 5% of Universities in QS EECA Ranking
HSE University now ranks 16th and places among the top 5% of universities in emerging Europe and Central Asia in the QS EECA University Rankings released by the British ranking agency QS.

‘The Students of My Module Are Serious, Hardworking, and Very Responsible’

‘The Students of My Module Are Serious, Hardworking, and Very Responsible’
Lev Manovich, Presidential Professor of computer science at the City University of New York and author of works on digital culture and new media, was one of the first foreign scholars to start remote work with HSE students this academic year. He is leading a project seminar at the Faculty of Humanities for students of the Bachelor’s programme in Cultural Studies.

Eastern Christian Tradition in Thomas Merton's Works: Lecture by Teresa Obolevich

Eastern Christian Tradition in Thomas Merton's Works: Lecture by Teresa Obolevich
On November 26, 2020, within the framework of the seminar "West and East: Universalism of Culture", a lecture was given by the leading research fellow of the IL for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue, Professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Teresa Obolevich

Music as Driver for Research

Jorge Luis Méndez Martínez
This November, Jorge Luis Méndez Martínez, Research Assistant at the HSE International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy presented his report on Acoustic Mereotopolgy at the research seminar ‘From the Logical Point of View’. HSE News Service has talked to Mr Méndez Martínezabout his research interests and living and working in Moscow.