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On April 26, Irina Dezhina, Doctor of Economics, Leading Researcher of the Social Services Department delivered a report – The Civil Society in the Russian Science: The Role in Reforming of the Research Complex  -- at  the 19th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities  which was held at the Columbia University  (New York, the USA).

On April 28, 2014, Research Director of Gaidar Institute Sergey Drobyshevsky told to Actualne Newspaper from Prague about the situation in the Russian economy in the context of changes to the geopolitical environment.

On April 28, 2014, Research Director of Gaidar Institute Sergey Drobyshevsky gave an interview on the budget rule to Expert magazine.

On 22-23 April, Sergei Tsukhlo, Head of the Business Surveys Department delivered a report at the Points of Growth in the Light Industry. Innovation Projects and Research Outputs Section within the frameworks of the International Sectorial Forum: The Russian Light Industry: the Present and Future – LEGPROMFORUM-2014.

On April 23, Irina Dezhina, Doctor of Economics, Leading Researcher of the Social Services Department delivered a report: Innovations, Brain Drain and the Russian Policy of Reforming the Higher Education (Washington, the USA).

On April 22, 2014, senior researcher of Gaidar Institute Sergey Zhavoronkov attended the Segonya Glavnoye Program at the RBC-TV channel. He told about the consequences of increased expenditures associated with the Crimea's accession to Russia, as well as how the Russian government is going to finance the budget deficit.

On April 22, 2014, Director of Gaidar Institute's Center for Structural Research Aleksey Vedev in an interview to the Utro Rossii program at the Rossiya-1 TV channel. He told about the threats of a zero economic growth for the country.

On April 17, 2014, Director of Gaidar Institute's Center for Structural Research Aleksey Vedev made a report, Banking system in the Russian Federation: Diagnosis and ways of recovery, at a meeting of the ARETT (ASSOSIATION OF RUSSIAN ECONOMIC THINK-TANKS) Dispute Club "Economic policy knots" dedicated to "Banking system: risks and ways of recovery".

On April 14, 2014, senior researcher of Gaidar Institute Segei Zhavoronkov attended the Sukhoi Ostatok [The Bottom Line] program hosted by Oleg Dmitriyev at Stolitsa FM Radio Station, to discuss whether public spending can be regarded as source promoting   economic growth in Russia in the years to come. 

On April 7-9, Ruslan Ibrayev, Researcher of the Monetary Policy Department took part in the course on the program – Management of Revenues and Economic Diversification in Mining Countries – organized by the Khazar University’s Training Center for Eurasia’s Mining Industries.

Gaidar Readings on Challenges Faced by the Regional Innovation Policy were held in the city of Penza on April 11, 2014.

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On April 10, 2014, Director of the Center for Structural Research gave an interview on the growth in federal budget expenditures and searching for sources of their financing to the Tomantsev. Itogi program at the RBC-TV.

On April 3, 2014 , Director of Gaidar Institute’s Center for Structural Research Alexei Vedev made a report at the IT-SUMMIT`2014, the industry’s leaders summit held in Minsk (Belarus).

On April 3, 2014, senior researcher of Gaidar Institute’s Foreign Trade Department Beckhan Chokayev made a report on Evaluation of Economic Effects of the Establishment of a Free Trade Zone with the European Union at The 15th April Higher School of Economics Scientific Conference.

On April 3, 2014, Forbes published an article on The ruble vs. Economic Sanctions: The Weaknesses of the Russian National Currency written by leading expert of Gaidar Institute’s Center for Structural Research Mikhail Khromov.

On April 2, 2014, senior researcher of Gaidar Institute Segei Zhavoronkov made a report on Publicly Financed Entities: Conflicts of Interests and Sick Finances at The Budget Policy Issues session at the 15th April Higher School of Economics Scientific Conference.

The expert provided the results of a study of the public debt growth dynamics in democratic countries. It was concluded that military expenditures were the public debt growth factor in the second half of the 20^th century. The situation began to see changes after the WWII in response to complete transition to the universal suffrage, as well as the emergence of radio and television broadcasting.

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