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September 14-15, 2006: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with support from the Administration of President of the Russian Federation,
and in partership with experts from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Independent Institute for Social Policy,
Center for Demography and Human Ecology, "Business Russia" Association, held the international seminar
"Low Fertility in Russia: Challenges and Strategic Approaches".
The discussion sought to explore fertility trends and population structure in the Russian Federation as compared to other countries;
experience of family and fertility policy implementation in Russia and other countries;
strategic aspects aimed at increasing fertility in Russia. Results of the seminar would contribute to development of
national family and fertility policy in Russia.
September 10, 2006: We are excited to announce the publication of the first printed issue of our journal "SPERO. Social Policy: Excpertise, Recommendations, Overviews" (Spring - Summer 2006).
Please call us, if you would like to have a copy: +7 495 7866718.
Electronic version of the journal is as usual available at our website: http://spero.socpol.ru.
To abstracts (in Russian and English) and full text (in Russian)...
August 29, 2006: News from the Consumer Sentiment Index project - CSI regular information analytical bulletin (July 2006) was posted at our website.
August 21, 2006: Paper by Lilia Ovcharova, IISP research director, and Emil Tesliuc, World Bank senior economist:
"Sensitivity of Poverty and Inequality Statistics to Alternative Definitions of Household Welfare".
Full text [700 Ęb, *.pdf]
Annex [110 Ęb, *.pdf]
August 18, 2006: IISP is launching a new research project: Increase of Wages in the Budget Sector of Economy:
Socio-Economic Constraints and Opportunities, Sept 1, 2006 - Aug 31, 2007 (support from the Moscow Public Science Foundation).
August 8, 2006 ă.: Our database "Organization of Healthcare Financing and Management in the Russian regions" was updated, data for 2005 was added.
July 17, 2006: Full text of the book "Healthcare in the Regions of the Russian Federation: financing and management systems" (2006) was posted at the IISP website.
July 7-8, 2006: EERC methodological seminar was held in Kiev.
Oxana Sinyavskaya and Sergey Zakharov presented their final report for the project
"Family strategies in the labor market and fertility in modern Russia".
Presentation (*.ppt, 148 Kb)
June 26, 2006: News from the Consumer Sentiment Index project - CSI regular information analytical bulletin (May 2006) and thematic analytical issue "Consumer preferences of the population" (May 2006) were posted at the website.
June 26-27, 2006: The first meeting of participants of the projects
"Comparative study of the Russian and French GGS" and
"Social policy towards modern family in the context of marital-family relations"
(INTAS grant towards implementation of the Russian, Georgian, Lithuanian and French GGS) was held in Paris.
Russia was represented by: S. Zakharov, L. Prokofieva, O. Sinyavskaya, S. Surkov.
June 13-14, 2006: methodological seminar for the Social Policy: Realities of the XXI century competition grantees was held at the IISP.
May 30, 2006: Conference "Pension Reform: Experience of the Region and Opportunities for Belorussia" was held in Minsk.
O. Sinyavskaya made the report: "Pension reform in Russia: peculiarities, lessons, and prospects".
See presentation of the report
May 16, 2006: List of Tatyana Maleva's 2006 interviews.
May 14, 2006: IISP 2005 annual report posted at out website.
May 12, 2006: IISP, as part of the international consortium, has won the 2006 INTAS reearch grants competiition towards the
implementation of the project "Social policy towards modern family in the context of the transformation of family and marital relations – empirical evidence in
two EU and two NIS countries – EU integration and its new nearest neighbours"
May 7, 2006: New issue of the information bulletin of the Consumer Sentiment Index - March 2006.
April 27-28, 2006: A workshop of the participants of the second stage of the project
Labor Market Policy in the Context of Globalization: Informal Employment
(Workforce Development Study of the Global Policy Network) was held in New Delhi, India.
O. Sinyavskaya presented the interim report on the results of the study of the dynamics "goos" and "bad" jobs in Russia.
See presentation of the report.
April 10, 2006: Thematic issues in the project "Consumer Sentiment Index":
"Savings and saving behavior of the Russians (February 2006);
"Consumer sentiments by socio-demographic groups" (March 2006).
April 6, 2006: On April 4-6, 2006, VIIth International conference "Modernization of the Economy and the State"
was held by the State University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
IISP research fellows made the following presentations:
March 23, 2006: Social portraits of the Irkutsk region and Ust-Ordynsky automonous disctrict were published in the Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
March 22, 2006: Second annual conference within the Support to Poverty Reduction in Leningrad Oblast (SPRILO) Program
was held in Saint-Petersburg: "Poverty in Russian Federation - Regional Analysis".
Report on the sample survey of household welfare in Leningrad Oblast was presented by IISP research fellows.
Report (full text) (*.rar, 990 Kb)
March 20, 2006: An update of the section "Economic condition and budget policy" in the Social Atlas, with the 2003-2005 data now. The section presents a more detailed discussion of the economic inequality of the subjects of the Russian Federation and its dynamics, as well as the dynamics of economic growth, regional variations of the share of market and nonmarket services in the GDP are demonstrated, for the first time investments into regions are analyzed, data and analytical comments on other themes were also updated.
January 31, 2006: A social portrait of the Kaliningrad region was added to our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
Independent Institute for Social Policy announces its Fifth grants competition to support innovative research in social policy within the
"Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century" program.
Deadline for proposals: January 25, 2006.
More...
December 23, 2005: O. Sinyavskaya's interview to the Radio Mayak boradcasting station on the problems of economic growth in Russia.
December 20, 2005: Social portraits of
the Chita region
and Aginsky Buryatsky autonomous district were addedd to the Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
December 10, 2005: A new section was added to Thematic Reviews in the Social Atlas of Russian Regions:
"Consolidation of Regions", opened with a review by Natalya Zubarevich
"Grouping of autonomous districts: advantages and risks".
IVth IISP Annual Academic Conference SOCIAL POLICY: CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY
was held on December 8-9, 2005.
Program and materials of the conference...
November 15, 2005: a roundtable discussion "Child Poverty in Russia" was held by UNICEF,
at which results of the research conducted for UNICEF by IISP colleagues were presented.
IISP staff took part in the discussion: T. Maleva, L. Ovtcharova, D. Popova, N. Zubarevich.
L. Ovtcharova's presentation: "Child Poverty in Russia" [1,2 Mb, PowerPoint]
D. Popova's presentation: "Regional Aspects of Child Poverty" [2 Mb, PowerPoint]
Program of the roundtable
 
October 28, 2005: The ARETT conference "Russia in a quarter of a century - the strategy of development"
was held. T.Maleva made the report "Social development of Russia: from the periphery to the epicenter of political agenda"
[see presentation of the report].
October 27, 2005: Tatyana Maleva, IISP Director, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Business Administration,
the highest degree in business education.
This is one of the first twelve DBA in Russia.
October 19-20, 2005: The International academic conference
"Planning of reforms and institutional change in Russia" was held in St. Petersburg.
T. Maleva made the report "Reform of social benefits: first lessons and long-term effects"
[see presentation of the report].
October 17, 2005: At the news agency RIA-Novosti, the press-conference "Health Reform in the Subjects of the Russian Federation" was held:
http://www.rian.ru/pressclub/20051017/41760683.html),
at which the electronic database "Implementation of the Health Reform in the Subjects of the Russian Federation" was presented.
To learn more about IISP participation in this project, see: http://www.socpol.ru/baza/maps.shtml.
October 6-8, 2005: In Istanbul, the 4th annual meeting of the Informal working group of the countries
- participants of the international
Generations and Gender Programme was held.
Presentations of the reports in English see at
the Population Activities Unit of the UN Economic Commission for Europe website:
http://www.unece.org/ead/pau/ggp/fourthmiwg/Welcome_Istanbul.htm
Russia was represented by Sergey Zakharov, academic supervisor of the program in Russia
[presentation of the report],
and Oxana Sinyavskaya, director of the "Parents and Children, Men and Women in Family and Society" project
[presentation of the report].
September 19, 2005: A roundtable discussion devoted to Ways of Improving the Pension System was held at the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
T. Maleva and Ye. Gontmakher made the presentation "On the State and Prospects of the Pension System in the Russian Federation".
September 14, 2005: Working seminar of the GGS project participants was held at the IISP.
The following presentations were made: ananysis of retrospective demographic data and contextual databases (by S. Zakharov),
personal and value indicators in the GGS database (by V. Magun),
mechanisms of decision-making in partnerships according to GGS data (by O. Sinyavskaya and D. Ibragimova).
September 7-10, 2005: XV Economic Forum was held by the Institute for East European Studies (INSTYTUT WSCHODNY)
at Krynica-Zdroj (Poland). Tatyana Maleva made the presentation
"The Last Come First: Would Central and East Europe Become Mecca for European Reformers of Pension Systems?"
August 30, 2005: IISP opened its Database on Mechanisms of Healthcare Financing and Management in Russian Regions.
August 26, 2005: A social portrait of the Republic of Chuvashia was published in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
August 24, 2005: Oxana Sinyavsakaya's (together with Anatoly Vishnevsky) interview to the Mayak broadcasting station on prospects of the pension reform.
August 22, 2005: A social portrait of the Murmansk region was published in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
August 14, 2005: N. Zubarevich's interview on social responsibility of the Russian business to Kommersant - Den'gi.
August 8, 2005: Social portraits of the Kamchatskaya oblast (with the Koryak Autonomous District) and Sverdlovsk oblast were published in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
July 26, 2005: T. Maleva's interview to Komsomolskaya pravda: Have we become wealthier?
July 18, 2005: Results of the project
Creation of a Database on Mechanisms of Healthcare Financing and Management in Russian Regions are summarized at the IISP website.
July 15, 2005: IISP started the 2nd stage of the project
Labor Market Policy in the Context of Globalization: Informal Employment (Workforce Development Study of the Global Policy Network):
June 2005 – May 2006.
July 10, 2005: Within the
Generations and Gender Program, IISP launched a new survey:
FAMILY STRATGIES, BEHAVIOR IN THE LABOR MARKET, AND FERTILITY IN MODERN RUSSIA.
The project won the competition Multidisciplinary Research and Intermediation Initiative of the
Global Development Network), held by the Economics Education and Research Consortium.
July 8, 2005:
Within the
Generations and Gender Program, IISP launched a project seeking to
develop contextual databases in Russia.
July 5, 2005: The project
"Monitoring and Forecast of Long-Term Effects of the Power Industry Reform for the Household Sector" was finished.
Results of the research were presented by L. Ovtcharova at the workshop held by the RAO "Unified Energy System of Russia".
Final results of the project were approved by the customer.
June 28, 2005: A social portrait of the Krasnoyarsk Region (together with Taymyr and Evenkia Autonomous Districts was added to our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
June 21-22, 2005: In Geneva, Switzerland, UNICEF held a meeting devoted to
“Child poverty in the CEE CIS region: research design in selected countries”.
Research results of child poverty in Moldova, Russia, Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro, Tadjikistan, Turkey were discussed.
Russia was represented by Carel de Rooy, UNICEF Representative in the Russian Federation and Belorussia,
and Lilia Ovtcharova, IISP research co-director.
See L. Ovtcharova's presentation: "State Accountabilities and Support of Families with Children"
June 22, 2005: A social portrait of the Kursk Region was added to our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
June 13, 2005: At the National Institute for Demographic Research (INED, France),
presentation of the project
"Parents and Children, Men and Women in Family and Society" within the international
Generations and Gender Program, was held.
Presentations were made by:
Tatyana Maleva, Sergey Zakharov, Oxana Sinyavskaya.
For more detail see PowerPoint presentation.
June 8, 2005: A social portrait of the Novosibirsk Region was added to our Social Atlas of Russian Regions. The Moscow Region section was updated.
June 7, 2005: The seminar "Monetization of Benefits: Research Results" was held at the Center for Strategic Developments. Presentations were made by T. Maleva (IISP Director), L. Ovtcharova (IISP Research Director), A. Alexandrova (Department for Social Policy Director, Institute for Urban Economics).
Presentations:
Maleva T. Reform of the System of Social Benefits: Causes and Effects
Ovtcharova L. Monetization of Benefits: An Expertise of Social Effects
May 12, 2005: A social portrait of the Republic of Tatarstan in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
May 5, 2005: Update of the section "Public Health, Education, Housing and Communal Sector" in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
April 28, 2005: A social portrait of a problem region in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions: Republic of Ingushetia (by V.P. Krasnoslobodtsev, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University).
April 27, 2005: ICPSR bulletin published an article on the Russian Sociological Data Archive: Kosova L. The Creation and Development of the Russian Sociological Data Archive // ICPSR Bulletin. Spring 2005. Vol. XXV. No. 2.
March 30, 2005: T. Maleva's interview to the Ekho Moskvy broadcasting station on the reform of the housing and communal sphere, and social benefits.
Attention! On February 25, 2005, IISP Third Annual conference Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century would be held at the Central House of Journalists, Moscow
Program and presentations (in Russian)
February 21, 2005: The second volume of our scholarly journal SPERO. Social Policy: Expertise, Recommendations, Overviews is on the web: Vol. 2. Winter 2005
February 20, 2005: T. Maleva's interviews to Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
February 15, 2005: T. Maleva's new interviews on the monetization of benefits to the REGNUM information agency.
February 2, 2005: The IISP lauched a new research project Social Differentiation of Higher Education (Dec 2004 - Dec 2004)
January 21, 2005:The Independent Institute for Social Policy announces that the first wave of the Russian Generations and Gender Survey has been accomplished. This survey covering more than 11,000 respondents from more than 11,000 Russian households becomes one of the largest sociological surveys in Russia. You can find more detailed information about this survey in the newsletter and the GGS questionnaire and manual at the project web-site.
January 20, 2005: The InterFax Information Agency held a press-conference on monetization problems. The conference brought together members of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks. Tatyana Maleva and Lilia Ovtcharova represented the IISP.
Full text of the conference (in Russian)
December 14, 2005: Social portraits of the Perm region and Komi-Permyatsky autonomous destrict have been added to our Atlas.
December 29, 2004: The famous book on the sociology of money has been translated into Russian: Zelizer V. The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies / Transl. by A. Smirnov, M. Dobryakova; Ed. by V. Radaev. M.: State University - Higher School of Economics, 2004.
November 23, 2004: Transcripts of presentations from the international conference "Accessibility of Higher Education: Challenges for Transition Countries" held on June 29-30, 2004, in Moscow, are published at out website.
November 18, 2004: On December 7, 2004, at 5 p.m. the IISP will hold a seminar
devoted to Social and Economic Consequences of Reforms for Russian Regions. A wide range of reforms
(those already launched and at the draft stage) relevant for regional development are to be discussed:
the municipal reporm, the monetarization of benefits, the possible consolidation of regions.
Experts from the IISP, Center for Fiscal Policy, Institute of Urban Economy, Academy of National Economy and other
research institutions dealing with socio-economic and budgetary-financial aspects of Russia's regional and municipal development
would take part in the seminar.
November 18, 2004: New regional portraits in our Social Atlas of Russian Regions: the Belgorod region and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Novemer 9, 2004: IISP annual report Results 2003. Plans 2004 is available at the website.
November 9, 2004: By secret vote results, T. Maleva, IISP Director, was elected ARETT Board member.
October 28, 2004: A social portrait of the Altay Republic has been added to our Atlas.
October 22, 2004: IISP has lauched a new project: Creation of a Database on Mechanisms of Healthcare Financing and Management in Russian Regions (October 2004 - March 2005).
October 8, 2004: A social portrait of the Rostov region has been added to our Atlas.
September 27, 2004: A social portrait of the Vologda region has been added to our Atlas of Russian Regions.
September 26, 2004: Seminar to discuss the implementation and preliminary results of the project
"Parents and Children, Men and Women in Family and Society" was held at the Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research (Rostock, Germany). O.Sinyavskaya made a presentation about the realization of the project in Russia.
September 7, 2004: New social portraits in our Atlas of Russian Regions: the Novgorod region and the Samara region.
August 2, 2004: A social portrait of the Astrakhan region has been added to our Atlas (prepared by T. Nefedieva, the Institute of Geography, RAS).
July 14, 2004: An overview and results of the 1st stage of the IISP project: "Workforce Development Study of the Global Policy Network)" is available at the web-site. (The project was implemented in Aug 2003 - June 2004).
July 12, 2004: Information about a new large-scale IISP project is available at our Research Projects pages: "PARENTS AND CHILDREN, MEN AND WOMEN IN FAMILY AND SOCIETY" (within the Pan-European Generations and Gender Programme/Survey). The pilot stage was implemented in Oct-Dec 2002.
July 12, 2004: The final analytical report to the "Targeted Social Policy towards People with Disabilities: Perspectives and Directions of the Reform" project has been completed (project conducted in Sept 2003 - Apr 2004).
July 12, 2004: Index of Democracy, and social portraits of the Khabarovsk region and Khanty-Mansiysk Automonous District have been added to our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
July 1, 2004: An Innovations Integral Index has been added to our Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
June 29-30, 2004: The international conference "Accessibility of Higher Education: Challenges for Transition Countries" was held by the IISP on June 29-30, 2004, in Moscow.
Program of the conference
 Photos from the conference
See more on the related IISP reseach projects.
June 8, 2004: At 3 p.m. a workshop within the Generations and Gender Survey would be held at the IISP.
June 7, 2004: A social portrait of the Stavropol region has been added to our Atlas (prepared by Stavropol State University colleagues).
June 2, 2004: A final seminar was held at RAO "Unified Energy System of Russia" to discuss the results of the project Russian Power Industry Restructuring: Consequences for the Household Sector implemented by the IISP in May 2003 - May 2004.
June 1, 2004: IISP launched a new research project Accessibility of Social Programs and Services for the Population of Russia: Scale and Inequality (June 1, 2003, - March 31, 2005).
May 24-26, 2004: in Spetses, Greece, the Third annual meeting of the informal working group of the
Generations and Gender Programme (http://www.unece.org/ead/pau/ggp/tmiwg/Welcome.html) was held. Representatives of 25 countries - participants of the programme took part in the meeting. Russia was represented by O. Sinyavskaya (IISP), S. Zakharov (Center for Demography and Human Ecology), O. Antonova (State Committee on Statistics, RF). O. Sinyavskaya and S. Zakharov made a presentation on the progress of the project in Russia. It is worth noting that Russia is among leaders of the programme. For more detail see abstracts of the presentation.
May 26, 2004: A social portrait of the Moscow region has been added to our Atlas (prepared by A. Makhrova, Moscow State University).
May 26, 2004: L.Ovtcharova's interview to the Vedomosti newspaper.
May 24, 2004: L.Ovtcharova's interview on poverty to the Profil journal.
May 18, 2004: One more regional portait - that of Tver region, has been added to our Atlas (prepared by Tver State University colleagues).
May 13, 2004: A social portait of the Republic of Buryatia, a crisis region has been added to our Atlas of Russian Regions.
May 11, 2004: T.Maleva comments on a case-study of small entrepreneurship published in Komsomolskaya pravda newspaper.
April 26, 2004: L.Ovtcharova's interview on poverty to the Expert journal.
April 23, 2004: IISP Board of Trustees meeting was held.
April 23, 2004: We are pleased to announce the publication of the 1st issue of the journal
SPERO. Social Policy: Expertise, Recommendations, Overviews.
This is new project of the Independent Institute for Social Policy.
No. 1. Spring 2004
Expert opinion
Gontmakher Ye. Russian social policy as a sphere of mutual responsibility of the state, business, and civil society
Maleva T. Social strata and social policy in modern Russia
Shakhnovich R., Yudashkina G. Influence of the labor market on the demand for labor in the period of economic growth
Floor to foreign experts
Kvist J. Welfare reform in the Nordic countris in the 1990s: Using fuzzy-set theory to assess conformity to ideal types
(translated by M. Dobryakova)
Social legislation
Sinyavskaya O. Main directions of development of the legislation on people with disabilities: 2000-2004
New in analytics: publications review
Events calendar
April 9, 2004: L.Ovtcharova'r interview to Vedomosti newspaper on pensioners' benefits.
April 1, 2004: L.Ovtcharova's interview to Novye Izvestia newspaper.
March 30, 2004: A social portait of the Tula region has been added to our Atlas of Russian Regions.
March 19, 2004: T.Maleva's interview to the National Information Service Strana.RU on the middle class and working poor in Russia
February 16, 2004: On March 19, 2004, at 4 p.m. IISP would hold a seminar Informal Employment in Russia: Methodological Approaches and Empirical Evaluations". A presentation would be made by Oksana Sinyavskaya, Cand.Sc., IISP Deputy Director.
Presentation
March 16, 2004: Lilia Ovtcharova's interview to Stolichnaya vechernyaya newspaper on poverty in Russia.
March 12, 2004: a new integral index in the Social Atlas of Russian Regions - Life Quality Index.
February 25-26, 2004: IISP Second Annual conference Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century was held at the Central House of Journalists, Moscow
(with financial support from the Ford Foundation).
Program of the conference (in English) and PowerPoint presentations (in Russian)
February 24, 2004: Welcome to the first pages of the Social Atlas of Russian Regions at our web-site. (Only in Russian so far)
February 9, 2004: T.Maleva's article on the poor and the middle class in Russia, Nashe Vremya (Novgorod), based on the School of Regional Journalism discussions.
February 3, 2004: Archive Council meeting was held.
The meeting was attended by A.Demidov (General Director of the Institute for Marketing Research GFK-Rus'),
T.Zaslavskaya (Academician, Professor, Co-President of the InterCenter), P.Kozyreva (Director of the Demoscope company),
L.Kosals (Leading Research Fellow of the Institute for Social and Economic Problems of the Population, RAS),
A.Kryshtanovsky (Department of Sociology Dean, State University - Higher School of Economics),
T.Maleva (IISP Director), A.Muzafarov (Leading Research Fellow of the ROMIR-Monitoring Group),
L.Ovtcharova (IISP Research Director),
G.Rakhmanova (Program Officer, Ford Foundation Moscow Office),
N.Rostegaeva (Head of Department, Institute of Sociology, RAS),
N.Tikhonova (Deputy Director of the Institute of Complex Social Research, RAS),
L.Khakhulina (VCIOM-A Deputy Director),
M.Shabanova (Prof., State Unviversity - Higher School of Economics). Photos
January 30, 2004: O.Sinyavskaya's participation in the The Basic Instinct program devoted to the ongling pension reform.
January 22, 2004: T.Maleva's interview to Mayak broadcasting station on poverty in Russia.
January 21, 2004: A workshop was held at the IISP to discuss the new program: Social Atlas of Russian Regions.
Experts in economic geography and regional economy participated in the workshop:
A.Alekseev (Moscow State University), V.Baburin (Moscow State University), O. Vendina (Institute of Geography, RAS),
O.Kuznetsova (Academy of National Economy), A.Makhrova (Moscow State University),
A.Pilyasov (Council for Productive Fources Studies, RAS), L.Smirnyagin (Moscow State University / INDEM),
A.Titkov (Moscow Carnegie Center),
A.Treivish (Institute of Geography, RAS), V.Shuvalov (Moscow State University).
From IISP: N.Zubarevich, S.Safronov, T.Maleva, L.Ovtcharova, Ye.Lapteva.
December 30, 2003
Attention!
Our address has changed:
Glinishchevsky pereulok, 3, entrance 3, 4th floor
125009, Moscow, Russian Federation
Phone: +7 (095) 786-67-18
Fax: +7 (095) 692-96-51
E-mail: 
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
January 6, 2004: Tatyana Maleva's interviews to Rossiyskaya gazeta (published on December 23 and December 31, 2003).
December 22-24, 2003: a joint UN workshop on "Social Integration of Youth with Disabilities"
was held in St.Petersburg by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and CIS Executive Committee.
S.Vassin and O.Sinyavskaya, participants of the IISP project "Targeted Social Policy Towards People with Disabilities:
Perspectives and Directions of the Reform", made a keynote presentation.
On the basis of conclusions of the report recommendations were made to the governments of contracting CIS states.
See full text of the presentation.
December 15, 2003: T.Maleva's interview on the labor market
December 11, 2003: IISP has launched a new program "Social Atlas of Russian Regions".
The program addreses several goals:
- it would allow researchers to identify different types of regions depending on their social features and agenda;
- investors would be able to evaluate the level of social tension, human capital, and social infrastructure to
build optimal strategies for business development in the regions;
- policy-makers would get quantitative and qualitative estimations of the existing problems to develop adequate social programs;
- teachers and students would get familiar with the current trends
of regional development and see the differences in social development in such a big transition country as Russia.
The IISP web-site would present:
- analytical and cartographic materials on a wide range of social and economic problems in the regional dimension,
- analytical descriptions of social situation in the subjects of the Russian Federation,
- various integral indexes of social and economic development of the regions.
The first results would be published at the IISP site in the middle of February, 2004,
and then be regularly updated up to September, 2005. The Program also would issue a CD "Social Atlas of Russian Regions"
with the analytical and cartographic materials.
December 4, 2003: Interviews with Sergey Shishkin on the new book "Payment of medical treatment by the population" (in print)
November 18, 2003: Second issue of the Sociological Data Archive information bulletin "Sophist" has been published.
November 14-15, 2003: a training seminar "The Use of Social Data Archive Materials in Research and Teaching" was held for young university teachers.
Photos from the seminar
October 13, 2003: Expert opinion about the middle class by T.Maleva, in: materials to the article "The Invisible Man. Companies don't know what the middle class looks like, but do know how to make money on it" // Kompaniya. No. 285
October 8, 2003: Interview by T.Maleva, IISP Director, and Ye.Gontmakher, Head of Department for Social Development, Office of the RF Government, to the Ekho Moskvy broadcasting station on the housing and communal sector economic reform
October 7, 2003: Seminar on the Pension Reform was held by the Moscow Carnegie Center.
Participants: Andrei Vorontsov (deputy head of the Department for State Domestic Debt, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation),
Will Olsurn (General director of the non-state pension foundation ING),
Oksana Sinyavskaya (IISP Deputy Director), Pavel Teplukhin (President of the private investment company Troyka-Dialog).
Presentation "Financial Competence of the Population and the Organization of the Pension Reform PR-Campagne" was made by O.Sinyavskaya.
September 17, 2003: Presentation of the book "Middle Classes: Social and Economic Strategies" (T.Maleva et al.) was held on Sept 17, 2003, at the Moscow Carnegie Center. Speakers: Tatyana Maleva, Vadim Radaev, Elena Avraamova, Yana Roschina, Sergey Surkov.
Photos from the seminar
Article about the project in Izvetia: Reconstruction of the Myth: Every Fifth Russian Belongs to the Middle Class / September 23, 2003.
September 9, 2003: Website news: Summary of a new IISP research project Targeted Social Policy towards the Disabled: Perspectives and Directions of the Reform has been published at the site. The project is supported by the Moscow Public Science Foundation
September 3, 2003: Interview by T.Maleva to the Ekho Moskvy broadcasting station on the demographic situation in Russia. A discusson was held between T.Maleva, A.Vishnevsky (Director of the Center for Demography and Human Economy of the Institute for Economic Forecasting, RAS), and Fedor Lukyanov (Chief Editor of the journal Russia in the Global Politics
August 21, 2003: IISP held a seminar An Evaluation of the Influence of the Reforms on the Household Sector.
Russian Deputy Prime-Minister Galina Karelova took part in the seminar. Presentation The Influence of the Growth of Prices for Housing and Communal Services on the Household Sector was made by Lilia N. Ovtcharova, IISP Research Director
August 20, 2003: A new feature at the Social Data Archive website:
it is possible now to build frequences for data stored in the Archive right at the website: http://sofist.socpol.ru/lin.asp
July 28, 2003: Website news: We published detailed information about the Second IISP regional conference Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century - A Regional Aspect, which was held on May 16, 2003, in Kislovodvsk (Stavropol territory)
July 25, 2003: T. Maleva's interview to the weekly newspaper Rodnaya gazeta, No. 13: "Social state is but a sheer declaration so far"
July 25, 2003: Website news: IISP annual report - 2002 (in Russian and English)
July 24, 2003: Website news: Accessibility of Higher Education for Socially Disadvantaged Groups program - see results of the grants competition
July 16, 2003: T. Maleva's interview to the newspaper Moscovskie Novosti (No. 27): Dress on the Center: It is not only the Temperature Difference at the Wealth and Poverty Poles that the Wheather in the Society Depends On [Ravnenie na seredinu: Pogoda v obschestve zavisit ne tolko ot raznitsy 'temperatur' na polyusakh bogatstva i bednosti]
July 15, 2003: The Moscow Carnegie Center published a collective monograph
Middle Classes in Russia: Economic and Social Strategies (Moscow: Gendalf, 2003).
Leading IISP research fellows are among the authors.
Authors' collective: E.M.Avraamova, T.M.Maleva (Head), M.V.Mikhaykyuk, L.I.Nivorozhkina, A.A.Ovsyannikov,
L.N.Ovcharova, V.V.Radaev, Ya.M.Roschina, S.V.Surkov, N.Yu.Firsova.
The electronic edition of the book is published at the Moscow Carnegie Center web-site:
http://pubs.carnegie.ru/books/2003/06tm/pdf/0306tm-full.pdf
July 10, 2003: New full-text books in our "Publications" (in Russian)
"Labor Markets for Alternative Civilian Service"
"Accessibility of Higher Education"
"Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century" (Vol. 1)
June 26-28, 2003: A Global Policy Network Methodology Seminar on Workforce Development and Skills Mismatch, organized by Economic Policy Institute, was held in Washington, D.C. Oksana Sinyavskaya and Daria Popova presented the IISP report on Informal Employment in Russia.
Abstracts of the presentation (MS PowerPoint format, in English)
May 26-31, 2003: Annual Congress of IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) was held in Ottawa, Canada. A presentation of the Social Data Archive was made at the Key Role of Archives for Social Sciences section.
Abstracts of the presentation (in Russian)
April 22-23, 2003: Fourth grants competition Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century finalists' conference
February 26, 2003: Website news: Photos from the First IISP Research Conference
February 20-21, 2003: The IISP with support from the Ford Foundation would hold the First Research Conference Social Policy: Challenges of the XXI Century.
Program of the conference
25.01.2003: Results of the small grants competition Social Policy: Secondary Socio-Economic Analysis have been reviewed.
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