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.

We congratulate Yakov Shcheglov, a staff member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Medical Studies and a graduate of the European University's Master's program, on defending his PhD dissertation! The work was carried out at the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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".

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

EUSP Associate Professor of Economics Igor Sloev and a co-author have published an article titled "Investment and Innovation in Emerging Versus Advanced Market Economies: a Schumpeterian Approach."

This year, the Swedish National Bank's Alfred Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to the American economist Claudia Goldin of Harvard University for "advancing our understanding of women in the labor market."

Antler, created by Zuckerberg's classmate Magnus Grimeland, is one of the largest venture capital players in the Asian high-tech investment market.