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From the 24th to the 30th of October 2019, a group of fifteen students and three professors from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, had the opportunity to participate in an ethnological expedition to Vladimir. The reason that led the group of students to this city was the local clash of ideals – if not mentalities - related with its central museum. During six days, with the support of the members of Vladimir’s independent journal, Dovod (“Argument”), the group of students, under supervision of their professors, was responsible to interact with the local population, interviewing entities connected with the museum, social communication, and the regional educational institutions.

Professor Alberto Eugenio Ermenegildo Pirni of Sant’Anna University, Pisa, Italy, visited the Department of Public Policy as a guest lecturer for the Project Seminar class, on 30th of September, 2019. Alberto Eugenio is also the coordinator of the research area in Public Ethics in the Institute of Law, Politics and Development at the Sant’Anna University and is a visiting professor at NRU-HSE, St. Petersburg.

This year, ECPR's General conference took place in Wroclaw, Poland and attracted more than 2,000 scholars from throughout the world and at all stages of their career. The Conference remains Europe's largest annual gathering of political scientists and one of the best platforms for academic discussion, exchange of ideas and the best thinking in the discipline.

We are glad to congratulate our graduates with succesful defenses of their master's theses and the culmination of a learning marathon that each student has worked hard to complete. The Department of Public Policy’s international Master’s programme wish them good luck and great succes in their further careers. 

Prof. Sanjay K. Rajhans from HSE public policy department visited the University of Torino in April-May 2019 under an Erasmus+ agreement between HSE and the University of Torino (Department of Culture, Politics and Society, Department of Law, Department Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures). During the visit, prof. Rajhans contributed in many activities. He held three guest lectures within the course in Comparative Law in a Global Context taught by professor Francavilla in the master programme on Area and Global Studies in International Cooperation and held two seminars offered to master and Ph.D. students at the University of Torino.

This book is the development of the department's research on role and place of public in contemporary socio-political processes around the world with contribution of authors from HSE and foreign universities.

The weeklong visit of the secretary General of International Public Policy Association at the Department of Public Policy of School of Political Science took place last week.

Last week, the students from the Public Policy Department had the amazing opportunity to attend a public lecture by one of the great minds and contributors to the Public Policy field – Emeritus Professor of Policy and Knowledge – Doctor Robert Hoppe.

On October 3rd and 4th Zorica Skakun, a gender coordinator for Oxfam GB in Yemen who provides support and leadership to ensure women's rights, presented two workshops on various aspects of violence against women for students of the programme "Political Analysis and Public Policy".

As part of the Global Political Economy course, on the 5th of April Mr. Nandan Unnikrisnan the Vice President of the Observer Research Foundation in India was invited to deliver a lecture on emergence of India in the global arena, the economic challenges India faces with development and how those challenges are reflected in the making of India's foreign policy