About the Centre
The main activity of the Centre is systemic monitoring and analysis of dynamics of socio-political transformation of specific countries and regions, forecasting their social and political development and consecutive development of recommendations on overcoming and avoiding socio-political instability.
Vadim Ustyuzhanin is the laureate of the Student Research Paper Competition held by HSE University!
A researcher at the CSRA is the laureate the Student Research Paper Competition on economics. Vadim Ustyuzhanin's paper Parenthood Penalty in Russia: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size, assesses the causal effect of childbirth on maternal employment in Russia, often referred to as the ‘motherhood penalty’.
Happy New Year - 2026!
The CSRA team wishes everyone a happy new year 2026! As is tradition, we wish you stability and competent risk assessment! We would also like to thank everyone who has been with us over the past year — our friends from the Faculty of Social Sciences and HSE as a whole, our colleagues and partners from other universities in Russia and around the world. Academia brings people together! Let's stay in touch in the coming year!
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CSRA and Ethiopia's The Policy Studies Institute signed a memorandum of understanding
The Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and The Policy Studies Institute have signed a memorandum establishing cooperation in the field of social sciences. This agreement formalised the willingness of both parties to establish a strategic partnership aimed at developing joint initiatives in areas such as federations and federalism, comparative analysis of public policy practices, and the socio-economic policies of states.
Yegor Fain successfully defended his thesis in political science!
The Dissertation Council has decided to award CSRA researcher Yegor D. Fain the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences. The CSRA team sincerely congratulates our friend and colleague on this achievement!
Yevgeny Ivanov on the prospects of labor migration from India
CSRA researcher told the Indian portal Counter Сurrents about the recent trends in the labor migration market in Russia and discussed the possible influx of labour migraint from India.
Vadim Ustyuzhanin presented his research Illuminating the Impact of Resistance: Nonviolent Political Movements and Economic Activity at the 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Seoul.
The Center's researcher has graduated from HSE with honors!
The CSRA team congratulates Vadim Ustyuzhanin, a member of our crew, on successfully completing the master's program in Comparative Social Research! During his studies, Vadim Ustyuzhanin published numerous academic articles, won a research grant, registered an intellectual property asset (RID), led a project group, and presented at academic conferences. It is important to note that Vadim Ustyuzhanin graduated with honors. Once again, we congratulate our colleague and wish him further success!
Forbes University Ranking: HSE Has Top Reputation among Employers
On May 22, Forbes Education released its updated ranking of the 100 best universities in Russia for 2025. HSE University retained its second-place position, having established itself as the university with the highest employer reputation. Among the top 20 were 12 universities from Moscow, three from St Petersburg, two from Tatarstan, and one each from the Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk regions.
CSRA bridges HSE University and Ghana
In March 2025, Micah Zing, a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Stability and Risks Analysis under the Faculty of Social Science at HSE University, Moscow, undertook an outreach and scholarship drive across various regions in Ghana. This initiative was supported by the International Admission and Talent Development Office of HSE University.
CSRA held the workshop ‘Russia and India: Perception of Each Other’
On Friday 18 April, another seminar was held by the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis. The event was dedicated to the study of Russia's representation in the English-language mass media in India. The keynote speaker was Dimitri Spiridonov, an intern of the CSRA.