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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:

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 №8(20), August 2025 where they talked about new trends in the development of regulation of the digital economy in the world.

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).

From September 6 to 14, the capital will host a large-scale festival—Moscow Book Week. This is a distributed event that brings together leading publishers, bookstores, and urban cultural initiatives. The festival program includes meetings dedicated to independent Russian publishers, and the book week will conclude with a large fair.

On September 1, the 4^th 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 and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. in 2006.

On September 11 at 6 p.m., the Gaidar Institute Library and the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (MHSES) will host a discussion of Lan Xiaohuang's book “The Visible Hand: The State and Economic Development in China”

In the spring of 2025, the Center for Evidence-Based Expertise at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy conducted a study of the paid household services market in Russia. Experts from the Center for Evidence-Based Expertise studied the characteristics of this rapidly growing segment, assessed the behavior of customers and service providers, and identified various models of digital intermediation in the services market. They analyzed the applicability of the Platform Economy Law adopted in the summer to various formats of digital intermediation in the services market, compared regulatory approaches in Russia and abroad, and considered possible regulatory scenarios laid out in the adopted law.

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.

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 №7(19), July 2025 where they talked about new trends in the development of regulation of the digital economy in the world.

On August 25 at 6:00 PM, the Library of the Gaidar Institute and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) will host a discussion of Stanislav Andreski’s book Social Sciences as Sorcery.

We bring to your attention No. 15(188), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.

We bring to your attention No. 14(187), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.

We bring to your attention No. 13(186), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.