Conferences, seminars, round tables

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.

Andrei Polbin, Head of the Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes Department at the Gaidar Institute, spoke at the 25th Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. In his report "Analysis of fiscal multipliers for the Russian economy on the basis of DSGE-model with preferences of Jaimovich and Rebelo" the expert analyzed under what conditions an increase in government spending has the greatest stimulating effect on economic activity.

On April 14, Alexey Zamnius, Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Mathematical Modeling of Economic Processes Department, took part in the International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scholars "Lomonosov-2025." The event is held to develop the creative activity of students, postgraduates and young researchers, to involve them in solving urgent problems of modern science, to preserve and develop a unified international scientific and educational space, and to establish contacts between future colleagues.

On 5 October, the Gaidar Readings titled ‘Cooperation of Russia and Tajikistan: New Economic Realities and Opportunities’ were held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

On April 28, the regular Gaidar Readings -- “Digital Technologies in Management of the Region” – where held in the city of Arkhangelsk.

March 23, 2018, UFA Gaidar Readings on “Medium-Term Economic Development Agenda: Focus on the Regions” took place in Ufa on March 23, 2018.

On 16–18 January 2018, an international conference titled ‘Russia and the World: Values and Virtues’ was held in Moscow in the framework of the Gaidar Forum 2018.

On September 25, the Gaidar Readings  - “Networking of the Eurasian Economic Union and “One Belt-One Way” Initiatives” – were held in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.

On 11 April, Gaidar Readings started in Oryol. The main topic of the readings was “Sustainable Economic Growth: Political and Social Prerequisites”.