
The regular seminar "Migration studies". Ivan Peshkov "Russian communities in Three Rivers (China): between political and ethnic mismatch"
On March 14, 2019 a session of the regular seminar "Migration studies" organized by the Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy: Russian communities in Three Rivers (China): between political and ethnic mismatch Ivan Peshkov (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) was held.
Academic workshop “ Basic skills for working with RLMS-HSE ”
On Thursday, March 14, 2019, the Centre for Longitudinal Studies within the Institute for Social Policy presented Basic skills for working with RLMS-HSE.

International Colloquium "Anthropology of Migration: New Research in Russia" met on March 1-2, 2019
Ekaterina Demintseva (Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Daniel Kashnitsky (Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Dmitriy Oparin (MSU, Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy) presented their recent researches at the International Colloquium "Anthropology of Migration: New Research in Russia"

The Institute for Social Policy launched the cycle of academic workshops “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience”
On February 28, 2019, the Institute for Social Policy at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics hosted the first edition focusing on social insurance development of the regular academic workshop “Active Ageing Policy and Pension Reforms: Russian and International Experience”.
Russian Investment Forum. Healthy Life Forum: Towards 80+
On February 12-16, 2019, Lilia Ovcharova, Director of the Institute for Social Policy, took part in the Russian Investment Forum and Healthy Life Forum: Towards 80+’ (Sochi).

Kyoto International Conference “Civil Society, Firms, and Government in Post-Transition and Emerging Economies”. Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (KIER), Japan
January 26, 2019. Vasiliy Anikin and Julia Lezhnina, the senior research fellows from the Centre for Stratification Studies, participated in the plenary session. There presentations were about social structure of and perceived role of state in post-transition Russia.

Presentation of collective book “Income Stratification Model of Russian Society: Dynamics, Factors, Cross-country comparisons”
On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 4 p.m. a collective book “Income Stratification Model of Russian Society: Dynamics, Factors, Cross-country comparisons” was presented.

Seminar "Migration studies". Demintseva E., Kashnitsky D., Oparin D. “Emigration of highly qualified professionals from Russia in the 2010s: why are they leaving Russia today?”
On January 31, 2019 was held a session of the regular seminar "Migration studies" organized by the Higher School of Economics the Institute of Social Policy. Ekaterina Demintseva(Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Daniel Kashnitsky (Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy), Dmitriy Oparin (MSU, Higher School of Economics Institute of Social Policy) presented their recent research“Emigration of highly qualified professionals from Russia in the 2010s:why are they leaving Russia today?”
On January 30, 2019, The All-Russian meeting on the implementation in the Russian regions the pilot projects aimed at increasing income of the country’s population and decreasing poverty level was held in Nizhny Novgorod
Lilia Ovcharova, Director of the Institute for Social Policy, took part in the meeting and made a presentation titled ‘How to increase the real income of citizens: some suggestions’.

Is it possible to eliminate poverty in the modern world?
On January 23, 2019, Lilia Ovcharova, Vice Rector of HSE, Director of the Institute for Social Policy, answered questions about poverty in the live broadcast of the Russia-K TV Channel program ‘Chto delat?’ (‘What Is To Be Done?’).