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!
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.
The President of Russia awarded the title ‘Honoured Scholar of the Russian Federation’ to the scientific director of CSRA
According to the decree of the President Vladimir Putin issued 24.01.2025, Askar Akaev is honoured with a high award ‘for his contribution to training highly qualified specialists, scholars and teacher during many years of diligent work’.
Happy new year 2025!
The Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis presents the results of the working year and wishes everyone a Happy New Year 2025!
The scholars of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis of the Faculty of Social Sciences took part in the BRICS Academic Forum
Leonid Issaev and Andrey Zakharov took part in the BRICS Academic Forum, which was held in Moscow from 22 to 24 May. The main goal of the forum was to develop academic exchanges, strengthen dialogue between the governments and expert community of the BRICS countries, and develop recommendations for the heads of state.
A delegation from the Ethiopian Institute of Policy Studies visited the Faculty of Social Sciences.
On 23 June, the Faculty of Social Sciences hosted a round table ‘Federalism in Russia and Ethiopia: Origins, Development and Prospects’ with the participation of scholars from the Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute. The Ethiopian delegation was led by Professor Petros Beyene, Director of the Institute. He shared his experience of working in Ethiopia's Transitional Government in the early 1990s, which drafted the country's current constitution, which provides for a transition to a federal model. On the FSN side, First Deputy Dean Mikhail Mironyuk took part in the roundtable, noting the stabilising role of federalism in Russia in recent years.
Researchers from the CSRA spoke at an international conference in Tanzania
On March 1-3, the scholars of the Center for the Study of Stability and Risks Analysis (CSRA) and Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences HSE University took part in the international academic conference "The Place of Africa in the World: The Past and the Present" which was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at the Russian Center for Science and Culture. This conference was devoted to a wide range of research topics and brought together experts from various fields. Beside scholars from Russia and Tanzania, researchers from India, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and Holland presented their papers. The conference drew great attention of the Tanzanian academic community.