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".

The book is called "The Birth of the Patient: Multiple Entities of Newborns in Russian Neonatal Care". Analyzing documents, semi-structured as well as expert interviews with healthcare professionals, focus groups and employing participant observation and self-observation methodologies, Anastasia Novkunskaya , Artemy Minakov and Anna Klepikova examine the structure of the neonatal care system using the example of one of the Russian regions.

The book contains a chapter by  History Professor Nikita Lomagin about how Soviet military strategy changed over the course of almost 30 years.

The Institute for the Rule of Law (IPL) at the European University at St. Petersburg has created the Russian Accounting Statements Database (RBBD).

On December 2, the Russian Science Foundation published the results of the competition in the priority area "Conducting Fundamental Scientific Research and Exploratory Scientific Research by Small Individual Scientific Groups".

Thesis title: Socialist Valuation of Nature: Political Economy, Environmental Regulation, and Coal Mining in the Soviet Union.

The CIANO training project is aimed at providing representatives of different disciplines with the opportunity to learn from each other's experience and jointly understand the stages of preparing complex publications. This involves a review of contemporary scholarly literature based on a formalized analysis of large arrays of publications.

Kirill Borisov, Professor of the Faculty of Economics, and his colleagues have published a new article "Cooperating with yourself" in the journal "Games and Economic Behavior". By the way, one of the authors of the article is Mikhail Pakhnin, himself a graduate of the Faculty of Economics.

Today, on November 11, the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference opened in Baku. At the first meeting, Nikita Lomagin, Director of the ENERPO Center, took part in the panel discussion of the Russian pavilion.

During the visit, the Rector of the European University Vadim Volkov and the Executive Director of the Center for Russian Studies of the East China Normal University, Professor Liu Jin installed a plaque on the Center for Eurasian Studies opened on the premises of the European University. 

Artem Nedoluzhko, scholarly director of the Laboratory of Paleogenomics at the European University, and Professor Antonio Baeza of Clemson University (USA) have organized a special issue for young researchers devoted to evolutionary genomics.

On September 19, 2024, a delegation from the University of Manila (Universidad de Manila, UDM) arrived at the European University at St. Petersburg on an official visit

On September 15, in what has become a tradition, a team from the European University took part in the "Pushkin – St. Petersburg" marathon. This is the oldest such race in Russia; 2024 marked the 97th time it has been run.