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On November 13, Arseniy Mamedov, Head of Budget Policy Department at Gaidar Institute, attended a regular meeting of the FBK Economic Club, discussing the draft budget of the Russian Federation for 2015-2017 that was submitted to the State Duma and adopted in the first reading.

On November 11, Ph.D. in Economics, Director of Center for Macroeconomics and Finance of Gaidar Institute Pavel Trunin made a report on the effects of western sanctions on the Russian economy at a seminar on "The Business in the changing political situation: sanctions, countersanctions and their effects" organized by the International Center for Advanced and Comparative EU-Russia/CIS Research (ICEUR) in Vienna.

On November 12, Forbes published an article on "Regional Budgets-2015: three ways to address the issue of deficit" written by Sergei Sinelnikov-Murylev, Scientific Supervisor of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, and Arseniy Mamedov, Head of the Budget Policy Department, Gaidar Institute. In the article the authors present analysis of the issue of regional budgets' balance.

On November 11, Gaidar Institute hosted a round table on the Strategic Guidelines of the State Policy in the North Caucasus. The round table was organized as part of cooperation between Gaidar Institute and the Civic Initiatives Committee.

The RePEc has upgraded Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy to 29th in the ranking of the top global think tanks in the field of economic policy, and retained its status of the best think tank in Russia.

On November 11, senior researches of Gaidar Institute Natalya Korniyenko and Anna Volchek attended public hearings covering the draft federal law No. 597863-6 On State Registration of Immovable Property.

On November 6, senior researchers of Gaidar Institute's Center for Macroeconomics and Finance Natalya Korniyenko and Svetlana Guliayeva attended a meeting at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, including zero public hearings covering the draft federal law No. 634370-6 On Amendments to Article 34620 and Chapter 265 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation (concerning "tax holidays" for small-sized businesses).

On October 29, in an interview to the RBK-TV Mikhail Khromov, Director of the Structural Research Center spoke about the consequences of a possible switchover to the floating exchange rate of ruble from November 2014.

On October 27, the Forbes carried an article by Olga Berezinskaya, Expert of the Structural Research Center dedicated to the analysis of the state of the Russian industry.

On October 27, the Ogonek magazine published an interview with Arseny Mamedov, Head of the Budget Policy Department. The interview was dedicated to the analysis of the draft budget for 2015–2017.

On October 22, the TASS Information Agency of Russia carried an article -- Three Fiscal Years -- by Arseny Mamedov, Head of the Budget Policy Department in which the author specified the risks entailed in draft budget for 2015-2017 approved by the State Duma in the first reading last week.

On 22 October, Senior Researcher of the Center for Macroeconomics and Finance, Candidate of Legal Sciences Natalia Kornienko delivered her report 'Protection of Trademark Rights in the Framework of the Customs Union' at the round table on "Soviet' trademarks held during the International Conference 'Government and Business in the System of Legal Coordinates'.
The conference was organized by the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation.

On October 23, within the frameworks of the Helsinki International Book Fair a presentation of Yegor Gaidar's book – The Downfall of the Empire (Imperiumin Tuho) – published in Finnish by the Verbatum oy, a publishing house was held.

On October 22, the Vedomosti daily carried an article by Alexander Knobel, Head of the International Trade Department. The article deals with possible consequences for Russia due to Ukraine's European integration.

On October 17, the founding conference of the Association of Economic Clubs of Russia – a federal network of youth expert communities established for participation in discussion of issues of social and economic development of Russia and the world – was held at the Gaidar Institute.

On October 16, the Forbes.ru carried an article by Anna Kiyutsevskaya, Expert of the Gaidar Institute which dealt with actions by the Central Bank of Russia in conditions of depreciation of the ruble.