Conferences, seminars, round tables

Irina Tolmacheva, Head of the Legal Department of the Gaidar Institute, Deputy Director of the Endowment Fund “Fund for the Development of Socio-Economic Sciences and Education”, took part in the strategic session of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education “Endowments in Science and Higher Education”, which was held on May 19, 2025 at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The event was attended by more than three hundred participants, including heads of universities and scientific organizations, representatives of authorities and alumni associations, to discuss and develop tools to support the creation and development of endowment funds in the scientific and educational sector.

On May 22, Gaidar Institute Library and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) hosted a discussion of Shoshana Zuboff’s book “Supervisory Capitalism or Democracy? Confronting Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization”, where Antonina Levashenko, Head of the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department, and Andrei Zubarev, Senior Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Digital Finance Research Department, participated.

On May 19, 2025, Ekaterina Papchenkova, Director of Center for Evidence-Based Expertise at the Gaidar Institute, took part in the 13^th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF) in St. Petersburg. The largest platform united representatives of legal, business and law enforcement communities to discuss the law for the benefit of citizens, business, improvement of law enforcement practice, promotion of legislative initiatives with the aim of developing legal culture and regulation of social and economic sphere in modern environment.

On April 12, Оlga Magomedova, an expert at the Best International Practice Analysis Department, Gaidar Institute, took part in the 21st "Blischenkov Readings" International Congress. In her report "The Impact of Climate Change on Interstate Relations," the expert presented the results of an analysis of the ambiguous provisions of the 2023 climate and security agreement between Australia and Tuvalu.

Andrei Polbin, Head of the Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes Department at the Gaidar Institute, spoke at the 25th Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. In his report "Analysis of fiscal multipliers for the Russian economy on the basis of DSGE-model with preferences of Jaimovich and Rebelo" the expert analyzed under what conditions an increase in government spending has the greatest stimulating effect on economic activity.

On April 14, Alexey Zamnius, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes Department, took part in the International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scholars "Lomonosov-2025." The event is held to develop the creative activity of students, postgraduates and young researchers, to involve them in solving urgent problems of modern science, to preserve and develop a unified international scientific and educational space, and to establish contacts between future colleagues.

On March 10, the 1st issue of the journal Economic Policy is available for readers. The bimonthly Economic Policy is an academic peer-reviewed bimonthly established by the Gaidar Institute of Economic Policy and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. It has been published since 2006.

On March 5, 2025, the library of the Gaidar Institute and the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) hosted presentation of the new book by a renowned Russian economist, former Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev "World Reserve Currencies: The Dollar and Its Rivals". The book, published by the Gaidar Institute Publishing House, is an in-depth analysis of the current state of the world’s financial systems and the prospects for reserve currencies.

On February 27, 2025, a meeting of the Scientific and Expert Council of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences on management challenges was held on the issue "Companies with state participation in the modern economy: current realities and management practices." During the event, reports on the functioning of such companies in the CIS, BRICS, OECD, etc. were reviewed.