The European University at St. Petersburg and the State Hermitage Museum open the School of Arts and Cultural Heritage. The school will combine master's degrees in the history of art and philology, as well as a professional retraining program "The Modern Museum: Management Methods, Practices of Cultural Interpretation".

The New League of Universities opens course registration. If you are a student at one of the four universities of the New League (European University, Shaninka, New Economic School and Skoltech), you can enroll in open electives.

Artem Nedoluzhko, Director for Development of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics of the European University, and a group of researchers from Russian and Norwegian scientific institutions have published an article in the international journal Frontiers in Genetics (Q2, impact factor: 4.772). The work is devoted to the study of the role of intergeneric hybridization and its adaptive potential for evolution. 

Researchers from the European University and the Sergey Berezin Medical Institute (MIBS) have calculated the effectiveness of Russian vaccines against lung damage during COVID-19 waves caused by  the Delta and Omicron strains. The effectiveness of two doses of Sputnik V was 56%. The effectiveness of three doses was 71%.  EpiVacCorona was not shown to be effective. 

Historians Amiran Urushadze and Yulia Safronova discuss how the tsar-liberator is remembered — from the moment of regicide to the present.

The Journal opens with a “Declaration on the Establishment of a New Association of Academic Journals in the Humanities”. The decision to establish the Association was made at the Round Table "Russian Journals in the Humanities in a Changing Academic Landscape,"  held at the European University on March 25, 2022. The declaration was signed by the editors of more than 20 Russian academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Artem Nedoluzhko, the Director for Development at the EUSP Laboratory of Paleogenomics, and a group of researchers from a number of Russian scientific institutions have published a commentary article in the prestigious international journal Nature Communications (Q1, impact factor: 14.919).

A New League of Universities debate club tournament was held on June 5. Over the course of the spring term, students of the universities participating in the league (EUSP, Skoltech, NES and Shaninka) practiced and developed their rhetorical skills and took part in practice debates at weekly workshops. The final event of the season was the New League Tournament, where several EUSP teams were represented.  

For the second year in a row, the university ranks 19th in the Humanities. In the "Social Sciences," it was ranked 29th.  

Sobaka.ru spoke with Mikhail about the preservation of historical documents, the digitization of diaries, diaries from the Blockade of Leningrad, and the laboratory at the center.  

We continue the rubric with stories of our graduates. Today we are publishing a review by Lyubov Chernysheva, a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. We recently congratulated her on defending her Ph.D. thesis “Digital Transformation of Neighboring Urban Communities (St. Petersburg, Russia case study)”.  

Benjamin Peters, a professor at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA has published a review of From Russia with Code in “The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review”.

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.