
Visiting fellowships for PhD students at SCRIPTS
"The Berlin International College of Research and Graduate Training” (BIRT) at the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS) offer 1- 2 fellowships for the maximum duration of 12 months.

Pre-doctoral fellowships in Social Science of Russia at UW-Madison
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for one-semester Wisconsin Russia Project pre-doctoral dissertation fellowships for Russian social scientists, funded with a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

New article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
An article "Public Service Motivation as a Predictor of Corruption, Dishonesty, and Altruism" by Jordan Gans-Morse, Alexander Kalgin, Andrey Klimenko, Dmitriy Vorobyev and Andrei Yakovlev was published online in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
New article in International Journal of Public Administration
An article “Practicing (State) Capitalism at Petrobras and Rosneft” by Amanda Zadorian was published in International Journal of Public Administration.
Kyle Marquardt among the 2021 HSE Best Teachers
Kyle Marquardt, a research fellow at ICSID, has made the final list of the 2021 HSE Best Teachers award as a winner in the Student Research Paper Competition category. Warmest congratulations to Kyle on his hard-earned success!

"We have accomplished much, yet there is always room for improvement"
An HSE University corporate media "Okna Rosta" spoke to the ICSID director Andrei Yakovlev about the history of the Center, being efficient as a global team, the challenges ahead, and more.
7th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC) Annual International Conference to take place on 29-30 November 2021
The Institute of World Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (in collaboration with the Democracy Institute of Central European University) is organizing the 7th The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC) Annual International Conference in Budapest, on 29-30 November 2021.
New article in "Nature Medicine"
An article "COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries" co-authored by Georgiy Syunyaev and Ekaterina Borisova among the multinational research team was published online in "Nature Medicine" yesterday. The article features data from an ICSID survey “Research on COVID-19 in Russian Regions (RoCiRR)”, which got 23 thousand responses across 61 Russian regions.
Guzel Garifullina has defended her PhD thesis
On Wednesday, 14 July, Guzel Garifullina, a research fellow at ICSID, has successfully defended her PhD thesis ”Political leaders and risky decisions: the effects of selection institutions” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
New publication in "Eurasian Geography and Economics"
“Eurasian Geography and Economics" (June, 2021) published a new article “Career trajectories of regional officials: Russia and China before and after 2012" by T. Remington, A. Yakovlev, E. Ovchinnikova and A. Chasovsky.