Svetlana Mareeva studied the public perception of social inequality and social structure of the Russian society
On January 14, 2019, the website IQ.hse.ru published an article «The Society of Unequals». The article presents the results of the research by Svetlana Mareeva, Director of Centre for Stratification Studies.

Fight against poverty
On January 17, 2019, Lilia Ovcharova, Vice Rector of HSE, Director of the Institute for Social Policy, talked about poverty in the live broadcast of the RBK TV Channel program ‘Delovoj den’ (“Business Day”).

Lilia Ovcharova on poverty
On January 15, 2019, the website Gazeta.ru published an interview of Lilia Ovcharova, Vice Rector of HSE, Director of the Institute of Social Policy, on the topic of poverty.
Article by Vasily Anikin “Employment in Post-Crisis Russia: The Role of Settlement Inequalities”
The academic online journal ‘Vestnik Sociologii’ (“The Bulletin of Sociology”) has published an article by Vasily Anikin “Employment in the post-crisis Russia: the role of settlement inequalities”.
Education and socialization of children with migration status
In 2019 Institute for Education and Institute for Social Policy will start the implementation of the “Education and Socialization of Children with Migration Status” project. The regional branch of UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia requested the project.
On December 13, 2018, the Institute for Social Policy held a scientific seminar on the topic “Digital public space and new ways of disseminating information”
The seminar moderated by Alexander Lutsenko (LIERR, EHESS) heard a presentation by Dr. Dominique Cardon, Professor of sociology at the Institute Sciences Po (Paris), Director of the Laboratory Médialab.

Seminar "Migration studies". Thom Loyd "From Local Connections to Global Networks: African students in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the World, 1960-1976"
On November27, 2018 was held a session of the regular seminar "Migration studies" together with School+ organized by the Higher School of Economics Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs and the Institute of Social Policy. Thom Loyd, Georgetown University, presented his recent research "From Local Connections to Global Networks: African students in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the World, 1960-1976".
On November 20, 2018, the Institute for Social Policy held a scientific seminar on the topic "Modelling of Russian Pension System Scenarios"
On November 20, 2018 the Institute of Social Policy held the seminar ‘The Modelling of Russian Pension System Scenarios’.
International Scientific Conference “Basic Income as a Prologue to Social Policy of the 21st Century”
On November 14, 2018, the Institute for Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the European Dialogue Expert Group, and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Russia held the International Scientific Conference “Basic Income as a Prologue to Social Policy of the 21st Century”.
The Russian-French Scientific Conference ‘The poverty of urban and rural population in Russia and France’ was held on October 25-26, 2018
The conference organized by the Institute for Social Policy of the Higher School of Economics, and the Department for Social Affairs of the Embassy of France in Russia.