
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?’).
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.