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 (MK) has published an article about a new study from the European University at St. Petersburg. Researchers analyzed seasonal snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle routes in the Khatango-Anabarsky district (northern Krasnoyarsk Krai) and Yakutia. To do this, they proposed a new approach to mapping northern territories, combining remote sensing of the Earth via satellite imagery with methods from social anthropology.

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.

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.