Текущие проекты

The project “New Way of Life: Forms of Family Organization and Changes in the Domestic Space” is a joint Russian-Finnish project with the support of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. April 2004 - December 2006 The project plans to finish data collection in April-May 2007.

The Project aim was to create an interaction network of municipal officials, women’s NGOs and gender researchers/academicians, and to implement the gender Mapping on municipal level in St.Petersburg

The Project was aimed at developing cooperation between nongovernmental organizations and governmental institutions that deal with issues of citizens’ rights and rights of women.

The project investigates class, regional, and ethnic-based gender inequality production and reproduction of distinctions in the private sphere in contemporary Russia. It aims to study the distribution of gender roles in young families (or long-term de facto couples) and relationships between various generations.

Сексуальные и репродуктивные практики в России: свобода и ответственность (Санкт-Петербург, начало XXI века)

2004-Present Research and exhibition project, “Photo Archive of the Anskogo Expedition, 1912-1914”   2004-Present Professional retraining of EUSP students in Judaic Studies   2004-Present Field Studies of Shtetls Summer schools for field work 2004-2008 were organized in cooperation with the "Sefer" Center (Moscow) and conducted in small towns of Ukraine (Tulchin, Balta, Mogilev-Podolsk, Bershad, Gaysin, etc.). The first results of this work are presented in the volume "Shtetl, 21th century: Field Studies"   2006-Present Research and exhibition project, “Museum of Jewish Oral History”

The exhibition An Ordinary Synagogue ran at the State Museum of the History of Religion from September 21, 2010 to February 8, 2011. It introduced museum visitors to the religious culture  of Jewish communities in the Western Krai of the Russian Empire.

Sketches of Moldovan Souvenir Rugs, an exhibition at the Petersburg Jewish Community Center (ul.

  The center implemented the research project “Reassembling Res Publica: Reform of Infrastructure in Post-Soviet Russia” in 2004-2007 together with the University of Helsinki. The project participants are Oleg Kharkhordin, Olga Bychkova, Olga Kalacheva (EUSP), Risto Alapuro, Rosa Vihavainen (Helsinki University). The goal of the project is to study the development of self-governing organizations in the context of the Russian reform of municipal self-government.

 The research program consisted of three independent tasks - archaeological research (with the support of geological exploration), comparative historical analysis and examination of the results in terms of their importance for political theory (formulation of assumptions for municipal reform).

A report delivered by EUSP for the state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (ROSNANO)

At present, the implementation of fiscal policy at the regional and municipal levels is the prerogative of the executive and, in part, of the legislature. The influence of citizens on the budgeting process is limited to public hearings of the budget, which often do not provide opportunities for interaction between government and society. This is mainly due to the lack of information available and understandable to all citizens about the budgeting process and the conviction of citizens that it is impossible to influence the budget policy. The lack of citizens' interest and adequate feedback between the government and the population is the main characteristic of the current situation. Participatory budgeting (hereinafter - PB) is intended to expand the scope of citizen participation in the budgeting process by involving them in the work of special commissions (consisting of citizens and representatives of the municipality) involved in the distribution of funds allocated to them.