Conferences, seminars, round tables

The growth of online marketplaces in Russia is not undermining traditional retail; on the contrary, it is helping to sustain and grow the sector at the local level. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Gaidar Institute after analyzing the impact of online order pickup points on municipal markets.

On March 18, 2026, Maria Girich and Оlga Magomedova, researchers at the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department, participated in the 25th International Scientific and Practical Conference Smirnov Readings. The event served as a platform for discussing pressing issues in the fields of regional and sectoral economics, finance, and law, where experts from the Gaidar Institute presented their research and proposals for improving regulatory mechanisms in the fields of ecology and labor market.

On February 9, a discussion of the book by the representative of American political philosophy and ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre, “A Short History of Ethics”, took place at the Gaidar Institute library.

From November 14 to 18, the Russian-Chinese International Forum on Innovative Cooperation in Molecular Medicine was held in China. Maria Girich and Оlga Magomedova, Researchers at the Gaidar Institute's International Best Practices Analysis Department, participated in the event. The Forum aims to develop a new roadmap for innovative collaboration in molecular medicine and to boost the sustainable development of global healthcare.

Gaidar Institute Press presented a book by Lan Xiaohuan “The Visible Hand: The State and Economic Development in China” at the non/fictioN27.

On November 14, the Grushinsky Prize ceremony was held, an annual award for achievements in the field of sociological literature. The winners in all four main categories were announced at the ceremony.

In September 2025, Moscow Digital School hosted the recording of a lecture “Jurisdictional Aspects of E-Commerce,” which addressed issues of legal regulation of online commerce, including international law and the specifics of determining jurisdiction for cross-border transactions.

The event was attended by experts from Gaidar Institute and Economic Policy Foundation's laboratory for the analysis of best international practices, who presented reports on key areas of digital trade regulation:

On September 11, as part of the Moscow Book Week festival, a discussion of Chinese economist Lan Xiaohuang's book The Visible Hand: The State and Economic Development in China took place at the library of the Gaidar Institute and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES).

On August 25, a discussion of a book ”Social science as sorcery” by Stanislav Andreski took place at the Library of the Gaidar Institute and the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (MHSES).

Irina Dudenkova, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Dean of the MHSES Faculty of social sciences, Ilya Inshakov, Candidate of Political Sciences, Assistant Professor of the MHSES Faculty of Humanities, Stepan Kozlov, MA in Sociology, Lecturer of the MHSES Social sciences Faculty, took part in the discussion.

On June 25, a discussion of Raghuram Rajan’s book The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Neglect Community took place in the Library of the Gaidar Institute and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES). The event was attended by Anna Nizhnik, Associate Professor of the Institute of Philology and History of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Candidate of Philological Sciences, MA in Political Science and International Relations; Kirill Chernovol, Researcher of the Best International Practices Analysis Department at the Gaidar Institute; Ilya Inshakov, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Humanities at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES); Artem Zemtsov, Candidate of Political Sciences, Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES).

Irina Tolmacheva, Head of the Legal Department of the Gaidar Institute, Deputy Director of the Endowment Fund “Fund for the Development of Socio-Economic Sciences and Education”, took part in the strategic session of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education “Endowments in Science and Higher Education”, which was held on May 19, 2025 at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The event was attended by more than three hundred participants, including heads of universities and scientific organizations, representatives of authorities and alumni associations, to discuss and develop tools to support the creation and development of endowment funds in the scientific and educational sector.

On May 22, Gaidar Institute Library and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) hosted a discussion of Shoshana Zuboff’s book “Supervisory Capitalism or Democracy? Confronting Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization”, where Antonina Levashenko, Head of the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department, and Andrei Zubarev, Senior Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Digital Finance Research Department, participated.

On May 20, a meeting of the Scientific Council took place at the Gaidar Institute, where the thesis of Tatiana Ivakhnenko, Researcher, Mathematical Modelling of Economic Processes Department, submitted for the PhD degree in economics, was discussed.

On May 19, 2025, Ekaterina Papchenkova, Director of Center for Evidence-Based Expertise at the Gaidar Institute, took part in the 13^th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF) in St. Petersburg. The largest platform united representatives of legal, business and law enforcement communities to discuss the law for the benefit of citizens, business, improvement of law enforcement practice, promotion of legislative initiatives with the aim of developing legal culture and regulation of social and economic sphere in modern environment.

On April 16, a meeting of the Academic Council was held at the Gaidar Institute to discuss the thesis of Dmitry Kuznetsov, researcher at the International Trade Department, submitted for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

On April 12, Оlga Magomedova, an expert at the Best International Practice Analysis Department, Gaidar Institute, took part in the 21st "Blischenkov Readings" International Congress. In her report "The Impact of Climate Change on Interstate Relations," the expert presented the results of an analysis of the ambiguous provisions of the 2023 climate and security agreement between Australia and Tuvalu.