In an extensive interview with Sobaka.ru, Nikita Lomagin, EUSP professor of history, a 2025 laureate of the TOP 50. Best Known People of St. Petersburg award, revealed myths about the blockade, spoke about the creation of the Institute of the History of the Defense and Blockade of Leningrad, the future of the blockade museum and the prospects for the development of the European University. 

At the meeting, the parties expressed mutual interest in cooperation and discussed prospects for academic initiatives, as well as possible formats for joint work.

The Scientific Data journal published an article by the staff of EUSP’s Institute for the Rule of Law titled "Russian Financial Statements Database: A firm-level collection of the universe of financial statements" (the journal is part of the Nature group). The authors of the material are Sergey Bondarkov, Viktor Ledenev and Dmitry Skugarevsky.

The five-week festival will transform Liteiny Prospect and its surroundings into a unified literary space, with the university, museums, bookstores, galleries, and culinary venues becoming stops along a route showcasing hubs of contemporary book culture.

The Bank of Russia and the magazine "Money and Credit" («Деньги и кредит») have summed up the results of the 2025 Competition of Undergraduate and Graduate Student Economic Research. Among the winners is Dmitry Novikov, a PhD student of the program "Economic Theory".

Congratulations to Ilya and Daria and we wish you easy implementation of your projects!

The Boris Maksimovich Firsov Prize, named after the founder and first rector of the European University, has been awarded for the first time. It is awarded to EUSP Master’s and PhD students whose academic and scholarly achievements deserve special recognition.

A new episode of the podcast "History is Just Beginning" has been released. This episode features Arseny Moiseenko, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Ego-Documents "Prozhito" and a research fellow at the European University's Faculty of History.

Last Saturday, the ShANINKA Library hosted the New League of Universities Chess Tournament, where students from Shaninka, the Russian Economic School (RESH), and the European University faced off in a battle of wits.

The theme of Ksenia's project is "Should the Sacred Be Accessible to Everyone? Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Spiritual Entrepreneurs in the "Places of Power" of Post-Soviet Russia."

The exhibition was organized by the football club team together with the Planet 9 museum bureau.

This scholarship is awarded to talented young researchers who will tackle large-scale research challenges.

The analytical center “Expert” has published its new ranking of publication activity among Russian universities. In the 2025 edition, the European University has retained its positions in all three subject areas where it had previously ranked.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Prozhito project. Over the years, the team has published thousands of diary pages, preserved the voices of past generations, created a vital archive of personal history, and inspired thousands of people to study the past. We wish the project many more years, dedicated colleagues, and continued inspiration. May Prozhito continue to open the past to us so we can better understand the present.

The main questions of the course are why in the 1870s young people went en masse to raise peasants to revolt and educate workers, and what came of it.

The School has been established to harness the new opportunities offered by big data analysis and artificial intelligence for the social sciences and the humanities. It brings together fully updated programs in economics, finance, sociology, digital humanities, data analysis, and artificial intelligence.

The study was conducted by the European University's Laboratory of Palaeogenomics in collaboration with Genotek and is based on materials from the Hermitage's archaeological expeditions.

The Potanin Foundation has announced the results of its 2024/2025 scholarship competition. A total of 750 students from 68 universities were selected as winners. They will receive a monthly named scholarship of 25,000 rubles from Vladimir Potanin, starting in February 2025 and continuing until the end of their studies.

Within two full weeks the summer school participants will have the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of Russia within the Eurasian space, analyzing it from historical and contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. The students will be engaged in thoughtful discussions with Russian and Post-Soviet studies experts gathered in St. Petersburg and visit landmarks of special significance to Russia’s past and present.

The theme of the new episode is "Empires and Nations".