It trains a new generation of analysts who, along with political expertise in international relations, possess data science methods to work with data on transport and migration flows, migration, energy, and digital transformation.

Ekaterina Melnikova and Mikhail  Lurie have co-edited the volume "The Village as a Value: Ideologies and Practices of the New Rurality" (compiled and edited by E. Melnikova, P. Kupriyanov, M. Lurie). The book has been published by Common Place with support from the Khamovniki Foundation.

In a programmatic 1986 article, Robert Darnton argued that the study of reading must focus on the social context in which texts function and are received. The historian argued that books not only reflect historical processes but also create them, serving as a medium for social interaction among the participants in the communications circuit: readers, publishers, and booksellers (Darnton R., 1986).

Moskovsky Komsomolets has written about on a new study by the European University. Scientists analyzed seasonal snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle routes in the Khatango-Anabar region (northern Krasnoyarsk Krai) and Yakutia. For this purpose they proposed a new approach to mapping northern territories, combining remote sensing using satellite imagery and social anthropology methods.

In the second episode of the School of Computational Social Sciences' podcast "It's Not That Complicated," host Maria Svetlichnaya is joined by Yulia Vymyatnina, Director of the School's Economics programs, and Kirill Borisov, Professor in the same field.

In this study, the authors introduced a new dataset of 2,600 "What? Where? When?" questions collected from 2018 to 2025. Using structural and thematic clustering, they provided a detailed overview of question types and knowledge areas, and evaluated 14 modern open LLMs using automatic metrics and the LLM-as-a-Judge approach.

Scientists from the European University at St. Petersburg, together with colleagues from Moscow State University and the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, have decoded the complete genome of the Russian desman for the first time. The results revealed the species' very low genetic diversity. These data will help develop scientific methods for its conservation and population restoration. A report on the study was published in Izvestia.

Together with researchers, podcast author and host Maria Svetlichnaya discusses scientific theories, myths, facts, and events that impact the lives of each of us.

The event was organized by the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University with the participation of the Centers for Russian, Central Asian, and SCO Studies.

The journal’s editorial team is pleased to present the second issue of "Cultural History" for 2025. This issue features both the regular columns "Political Culture" and "Reviews and Reviews" and new thematic selections of original research.

Rauf Shumyakov won the competition with the topic “Radical Socialists in the Propaganda of Their Political Opponents (March 1917 — March 1918).”

Artem Nedoluzhko, head of the Paleogenomics Laboratory, Svetlana Pankova, a research associate at the same laboratory, and their colleagues conducted a DNA analysis of the grasses stuffed in a funerary doll from the Oglakhtinsky burial ground. Information about this discovery appeared in a report on the N+1 portal. Radiocarbon dating of grass from the stuffing of the burial doll indicated the 3rd to the first half of the 5th century. Here is an excerpt from the publication on N+1:

Episode 17 of the "Parties of the Line" podcast continues the story of the graphic legacy of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens in the Hermitage.

We explore this question in the new, 7th episode of the "Natural Questions about Artificial Intelligence" podcast with Igor Zaitsev, Oleg Lashmanov, and Lada Shipovalova.

The Russian Science Foundation has announced the results of its competition for fundamental scientific research projects and exploratory scientific research by small individual research groups.

In this episode, philosophers Daria Chirva, Pavel Baryshnikov, and Lada Shipovalova discuss theories of consciousness that allow for its emergence in AI, search for the boundary between an advanced machine and human experience, and also address the question of how much human linguistic activity differs from the operation of a neural network.

A new episode of the podcast "History is Just Beginning" is here. In episode 29, the conversation between historians Amiran Urushadze and Alexey Miller, which began in the previous episode, continues.

On November 17–18, 2025, the 4th Professional Meeting of Endowment Funds of Kazakhstan took place in Almaty. It was organized by Almaty Technological University and the Aurora-Ala Corporate Fund, with support from the National Center for Higher Education Development of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the National Association of Endowments of Russia.

In a new episode of a podcast about artificial intelligence, philosophers Natalia Yastreb and Valentin Bazhanov answer questions from Lada Shipovalova, Director of the Stasis Center for Practical Philosophy. They discuss what distinguishes humans from machines, whether our lack of understanding of large language models hinders the creation of strong AI, and in what language neural networks "think."

The 16th episode of the podcast "The Party of the Line: Drawings by Old and New Masters" is dedicated to the graphic legacy of Peter Paul Rubens. The Hermitage Museum holds an exceptionally comprehensive collection of original sheets by the Flemish artist. The podcast focuses primarily on drawings related to Rubens's engagement with ancient monuments.