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On 10 June, Irina Dezhina, leading researcher at the Social Services Department at the Gaidar Institute, made a presentation at the International Forum of Technological Development “Tekhnoprom-2016” which was held in Novosibirsk. The title of her speech was “The BRICS Research and Innovation Network Platform as a search platform for partners for joint R&D and innovation projects”.

Issue No.10(28), 2016 of the analytical review – The Online Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of the Social and Economic Development – was published. The goal of the above review is to follow current trends and changes in the Russian economy.

Logos, a Russian philosophical and literary journal whose founder is the Gaidar Institute has been included in Scopus, the largest international database of scientific periodicals.

On 15 June, the Slon.ru Web-site carried an article – Irregular Improvements. Wh ere Russian Reformers are Always Wrong – by Ivan Lyubimov, Senior Researcher. The article deals with the issue of sensitivity of transformations selected at random.

On 8 June, Natalia Kornienko, Head of the Tax System Development Department took part in a joint meeting of the Tax Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Committee on Taxes, Financial Reporting and Controlling of the Russian-German Foreign Trade Chamber.

On 31 May, Sergei Prikhodko, Executive Director and Sergei Drobyshevsky, Academic Director took part in the round table: “IdeaFactory – The Digital World & the Future of Work” which was held within the frameworks of the annual OECD Forum.

Issue No.9(27), 2016 of the analytical review – The Online Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of the Social and Economic Development – was published. The goal of the above review is to follow current trends and changes in the Russian economy.

On 31 May, the Central Bank of Russia published the bulletin: “What Trends Speak About” in which the results of a survey of enterprises were presented. The survey was carried out jointly with the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy.

On 25 May, Forbes.ru published the Gaidar Institute's senior researcher Ivan Lyubimov's article, “GDP per person: What do economic indicators attest to?", in which he explains why it is incorrect to assess volatile economies using GDP per capita indicator.

Issue No.8(26), 2016 of the analytical review – The Online Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of the Social and Economic Development – was published. The goal of the above review is to follow current trends and changes in the Russian economy.

On 20 May, the newspaper Vedomosti published the Gaidar Institute’s senior researcher Ivan Lyubimov’s article, “Advantages of horizontal power”, in which he describes the tendency to corruption and reforms in authoritarian and democratic regimes.

On 17 May, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree “On the approval of the Regulation on the Presidential Economic Council working group focusing on “Priorities of structural reforms and sustainable economic growth” and its composition”. The working group includes Gaidar Institute's Principal Researcher at the Center for Macroeconomics and Finance Alexey Kudrin, Scientific Director Sergey Drobyshevsky, Director of the Center for Real Sector Georgy Idrisov.

On 17 May, the Gaidar Institute’s Publishing House and the NRU HSE School of Philology presented the Russian translation of Franco Moretti’s book Distant Reading.  

Issue No.7(25), 2016 of the analytical review – The Online Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of the Social and Economic Development – was published. The goal of the above review is to follow current trends and changes in the Russian economy.

On April 27, the Gaidar Institute hosted a discussion of the project on creating the Federal Resource Center and a network of regional partners oriented at improving the financial literacy of students, shoolchildren, and the public.

On 19 April, Head of the Innovation Economy Department Vera Barinova and senior researcher of the department Stepan Zemtsov presented a paper "Revealing Clusters of High-Tech Small and Medium Companies in Russia" at the 17^th April Conference on issues of economic and social development hosted by the NRU HSE.