Journal Economic Sociology Reviews the Russian-French Conference on Middle Classes
The new issue of the journal Economic Sociology published Review of the Russian-French Scientific Conference Dynamics of Middle Classes: between Expansion and Uncertainties organised on October 3, 2019, in Moscow HSE premices by the Institute for Social Policy with the support of the Embassy of France in Russia.
Ekaterina Demintseva and Dmitriy Oparin participated at the 51st ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) conference in San Francisco, 23-26 November, 2019.
Ekaterina Demintseva made a presentation "Emigration of Highly Qualified Professionals from Russia in the 2010s: Why Are They Leaving Russia Today?” at the panel “New Trends of Post-Soviet Migration”. Dmitriy Oparin made a presentation “New Leadership, Old Ritual: Possession and Exorcism in the Russian Muslim Migration Context” at the panel “The ‘Official’ and the ‘Everyday’: Variety of Muslim Beliefs, Practices and Discourses in Russia”.

The report of the Centre for Regional Programmes of Social and Cultural Development was presented at the international UNESCO conference in Kazan
The international forum "Astronomy and the World Heritage” under the auspices of UNESCO, was held in Kazan from 2 to 5 December.

The ‘Migration seminar’. Ekaterina Kapustina (European University at St. Petersburg, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography RAS (Kunstkamera)) will give a presentation "Dagestani communities in the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs: formal and informal interactions with the receiving and sending societies"
On December 2 at 6 pm a session will be held of the seminar “Migration studies”, organized by the Institute for Social Policy of the Higher School of Economics

Pavel Shulgin and Olga Shtele presented a leading report at a scientific conference in Tyumen
On November 28, Tyumen Industrial University hosted a scientific conference "Embedding Cultural Heritage in Economic Reality", which was held within the framework of the project "Architectural Image of the Region".
The ninth academic workshop within the series of events under the topic “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience”
The Institute for Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics will held the ninth academic workshop devoted to the Economic Aspects of the Long-Term Care System in Russiaorganized in cooperation with the Russian National Association of social service providers (NASO) within the series of events under the topic “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience”on November 28, 2019.
The regular seminar "Migration studies". "The 2015 Refugee Crisis: Four Years after, where are We at?", Tawat Mahama
On November 14, 2019 a session of the regular seminar "Migration studies" organized by the Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy: The 2015 Refugee Crisis: Four Years after, where are We at?, Tawat Mahama (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) was held.
24-26 October was held an international workshop Home, mobility and translocality: Muslim identities between the post-Soviet space, Europe and Turkey
The workshop was organized by the Institute for Social Policy and School of Sociology, HSE University, Moscow With support from the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia, Department of Labour, Social Affairs and Healthcare of the German Embassy in Moscow, and the French-Russian Research Center for Social Sciences in Moscow 24-25 October 2019 and Garage Museum.

The eighth academic workshop within the series of events under the topic “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience”
On October 24, 2019, the Institute for Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics held the eighth academic workshop devoted to the Reforming Pension System in Germanу. The event is organized in cooperation with the Embassy of Germany in Russia, the World Bank and German Friedrich Ebert Foundation Russia within the series of events under the topic “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience”

In August and Septeber 2019, Ekaterina Demintseva and Dmitry Oparin conducted field research in Irkutsk
In August and September 2010, Ekaterina Demintseva and Dmitry Oparin conducted field research in Irkutsk exploring the migration situation in the city.