Dmitry Serebrennikov and Dmitry Skogarevsky (both from EUSP’s Institute for the Rule of Law) have published a preprint of their article "A tale of four cities: Exploring environmental characteristics of CCTV equipment placement".

European University researchers from MAST (EUSP Center for Machine Learning, Data Analysis and Statistics) and CESIS (EUSP Center for Arctic Social Studies)  have examined how much public procurement specialists work after hours.

As part of EUSP’s history podcasts, a new cycle dedicated to Alexander II has begun. The previous cycle was devoted to the topic of fornication in Russia. Those podcasts can be found here.

On April 27, 2022, Lyubov Chernysheva defended her PhD thesis. Lyubov Chernysheva graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology in 2016 and began her studies as a postgraduate student of the Faculty of Sociology and Philosophy in 2019.

Researchers at EUSP’s Institute for the Rule of Law have published an analytical review "Arbitration Disputes by Types of Economic Activities of the Parties Involved".

Now you can purchase our t-shirts, hoodies, slippers and more from anywhere in the world. We’re starting with a classic collection in our university colors and with the EU logo, and we’ll be adding more.

The third and final episode of our series investigating fornication cases in 18th century Russia with Amiran Urushadze and Pavel Romanov.

The project director is Nikolai Vakhtin. The participants are all employees of CESIS, the main researchers are Kirill Istomin and Elena Lyarskaya.

We continue the conversation about fornication in Russia in the 18th century with historians Amiran Urushadze and Pavel Romanov in the podcast "History is just beginning".

The European University launches a popular science series, "History is just beginning", where we talk to scholars who are discovering the past by studying what is left of it. The focus of the first episode is Christian marital morality, church interrogation methods and punishment for extramarital sex in pre-Petrine Russia. Investigations into fornication cases in Russia in the 18th century are discussed by Associate Professor of the Faculty of History Amiran Urushadze and a graduate student of the same faculty, Pavel Romanov.

In 2022, the History Department of the European University at Saint Petersburg will call the 16th Annual Conference “Constructing the ‘Soviet’?” for young scholars. This year our point of departure will be a category of the “global socialist ecumene”, which we apply to the Soviet and other socialist projects history.

Researchers from the European University at St. Petersburg and the Medical Institute named after Berezin Sergey (MIBS) calculated the effectiveness of Russian vaccines against symptomatic coronavirus infection during an outbreak caused by the delta variant. "Sputnik V" protects against the delta variant. Тhe effectiveness of the vaccine was 58%. In reality, the efficacy is even higher, since this calculated figure is influenced by the number of people who recovered but were not included in the data.

On the 30th and 31st of March 2022, the international conference ''Esotericism and Russian literature'' will take place. It will explore a complex variety of relations between Russian literature and esotericism.

The Institute for the Rule of Law (IRL) at the European University at St. Petersburg, based on data from more than 550,000 scheduled and unscheduled inspections, identified and assessed the main trends  in the activities of regulatory authorities this year.

The book Reindeer herders’ thinking: A comparative research of relations between economy, cognition and way of life (Verlag Der Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2021) is a result of more than 10 years of fieldwork in the tundras of Komi Republic and Nenets Okrug.

On December 15, QS Quacquarelli Symonds published an annual regional ranking of 450 universities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. EUSP was listed in this rating for the first time, taking 117th place in the overall ranking and 25th among Russian universities.

ACRA and the European University at St. Petersburg have entered into a strategic partnership agreement to develop the green and responsible finance market, as well as corporate sustainability practices. The memorandum on cooperation was signed by Managing Director of ACRA Alexey Mukhin and Rector of the European University Vadim Volkov.

MAST is a platform that connects researchers in the social sciences and humanities with technical specialists to work on joint projects. Historians, art historians, anthropologists and other academics who have not previously worked with big data will be able to pose new research questions and answer them with the help of technicians who operate data analysis tools.

According to the results of the new stage of a serological survey, more than 80% of adults in St. Petersburg have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. Repeat infections (confirmed by PCR tests) are relatively rare events-under 3%. In order for the active phase of the epidemic to end, as many citizens as possible must have immune protection.

The European University at St. Petersburg, together with the State Hermitage Museum, the Genotek Medical Genetic Center and the Grotex (Solopharm) company, are creating the Paleogenomics Laboratory. It will be part of the new International School of Arts and Cultural Heritage.