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Sobaka.ru spoke with Mikhail about the preservation of historical documents, the digitization of diaries, diaries from the Blockade of Leningrad, and the laboratory at the center.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

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.