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Researchers at the Gaidar Institute’s Industrial Organization and Infrastructure Economics Department have discovered that modern language models can forecast changes in industrial production by analyzing news, company statements, and regulatory announcements. This new approach allows for a more accurate assessment of the future state of the economy amid instability and enables a faster response to changes than traditional forecasting methods.

Eugene Charnyak’s book “AI & I: An Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence” published by Gaidar Institute Press in 2025, has been included on the longlist for the seventh season of The Enlightener, Best Translation Prize.

The Gaidar Institute's Center for Evidence-Based Expertise (CEBE) has presented preliminary findings of a comprehensive study of Russia’s secondary residential real estate market. The study examines the current profile of the secondary housing market, analyzes the risks associated with transactions, assesses the effectiveness of the existing infrastructure supporting such transactions and identifies effective mechanisms for upgrading the security of market participants.

The Economics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University held its annual student video competition, “Faces of Economic Reforms.” The winners of the 2025-2026 competition received special awards – books published by Gaidar Institute Press.

Yesterday, June 25, a public lecture -- "The Present and Future of Cryptocurrencies: Functions, Regulation and Investments" -- was held at the Library on Gazetny.

On June 22, the Library on Gazetny hosted a presentation of the new book by Boris Guryevich Kapustin, one of Russia’s leading contemporary political philosophers and the founder and first dean of the Faculty of Political Science at Shaninka. Realism and Utopianism: The Case of Machiavelli, recently published by Gaidar Institute Press, sparked keen interest among both the professional community and the general public.

On June the 22^nd the 3^d issue of Economic Policy was available for readers. Economic Policy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal established by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy in 2006.

Yesterday, June 17, a lively discussion was held at the Library on Gazetny on “Paternalism and the Welfare State: Constitutional, Legal, and Institutional Issues.” The event, organized at the Gaidar Institute, brought together experts in the fields of law, political theory, and economics to discuss one of the key challenges facing the modern constitutional order.

Researchers of the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department prepared the next issue of the Monitoring of Legal Regulation of the Digital Economy №5(29), May 2026 where they talked about new trends in the development of regulation of the digital economy in the world.

On June 15, discussion of the book “The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics” by Jason Socrates Bardi, published by Gaidar Press, took place at the Library on Gazetny.

The website Portfolio Management Research has published an article in The Journal of Alternative Investments by researchers from the Digital Finance Department Andrey Zubarev, Vera Larionova and Kirill Shilov, a Researcher at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies (IAES) of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)—Explaining DeFi Token Returns: Do Protocol Metrics and Broader Crypto Trends Matter?

On June 9, the Gaidar Institute held its fifth public lecture series, "DeFi: A Decentralized Financial System in the World of Cryptocurrency." The event, held at the Library on Gazetny, brought together all those interested in the structure of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and its place in the modern world.

On June 3, 2026, Andrey Zubarev, Senior Researcher of the Digital Finance Department at the Gaidar Institute, took part in the 56^th scientific seminar on research in the digital economy. the event was dedicated to relevant problems in the crypto capitalism.

An article “Family labor supply and wage shocks in an emerging market: Evidence from Russia” by Alexey Zamnius, a Researcher of the Mathematical Modeling and Economic Processes Department at the Gaidar Institute, has been published on ScienceDirect platform in English language.