On June 18, 2025, A.P. Kazun, Director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development and the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, spoke at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
Within the framework of the session "The rights of young scientists to their developments: how not to drown in bureaucracy?", organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia and O.E. Kutafin University, the issue of barriers and incentives for applied research carried out by young scientists was discussed.
Global South and Russia: Challenges for the Economy and Development
Dr. Mbandlwa Zamokule, ICSID Visiting Researcher, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Economics, Durban University of Technology, presented his report on "Global Economies in the Global South and Russia's Economy."
International cooperation
Dr Mbandlwa Zamokuhle of Durban University of Technology, South Africa, has come to ISCID as visiting researcher.
New publication
The Russian Journal of Economics published an article by Shweta Sikhwal, an ICSID research assistant
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.
New article in "Europe-Asia Studies"
An article "A Centralist Approach to Regional Development: The Case of the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East" by Alexander Libman and Andrei Yakovlev was published online in the journal "Europe-Asia Studies".
The ICSID conference is getting closer
On June 7-10 the 10 th ICSID Conference will be held online. Ekaterina Borisova and John Reuter, the ICSID fellows who were responsible for the Conference organization, answered our questions about the upcoming event.
New stage of cooperation: the HSE University and the FU Berlin
In March 2021 the HSE University and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) were awarded an institutional partnership grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to foster cooperation between these two institutions and to involve in it a broader group of younger fellows and doctoral students. On May 27th this project will start with a digital workshop "Varieties of Populism in East and West" (deadline for submission is April 23rd; for more info about the workshop see the link at the end of the news). We interviewed Professor Dr. Katharina Bluhm, director of the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, about the goals of this project and prospects of cooperation between the HSE University and the FUB.
IOS Regensburg funding support
IOS Regensburg Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies offers a funding support (from 4 to 6 months) to recent PhD graduates with their research projects. The institute invites young scholars with projects in the fields of history, economics and political science.
Post-doctoral Fellowships
HSE has started recruitment for post-doctoral positions for the next academic year. International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ISCID) has proposed 7 research topics for postdoctoral fellows.