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Issue No. 1(19), 2016 of the analytical review – The Online Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of the Social and Economic Development – was published. The goal of the above review is to follow current trends and changes in the Russian economy.

On 21 January Head of the Empirical Financial Studies Department Andrei Simonov in an interview to TVRain deliberated on the way culture affects economy and on other secrets of behavioral economics and why bad times are the best for the implementation of reforms.

On 20 January Head of World Trade Department took part in a program “PRAV!DA” on ORT TV channel where they discussed the outcome of the Gaidar Forum held on 13-15 January.

On 19 January, the Vedomosti daily carried an article: Reforms Will Never Be Popular by Ivan Lyubimov, Senior Researcher. The article deals with problems related to investments in human capital.

Within the frameworks of the VII Gaidar Forum – 2016 Russia and the World: Looking into the Future held on 13-15 January 2016, employees of the Gaidar Institute held a number of panel and expert discussions at which the issues of economic growth, food security, foreign trade, monetary policy and other were discussed.

Over the period 11–15 January 2016, the International Fiscal Sustainability Department of the Gaidar Institute and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), headed by Professor of Economics at Boston University Laurence J. Kotlikoff, held a series of scientific seminars at the Gaidar Institute, dedicated to the issues associated with the creation of general equilibrium models.

15 January was the third and final day of the international conference – Russia and the World: Looking to the Future – within the frameworks of the Gaidar Forum – 2016.

On 14 January, the VIIth Gaidar Forum continued its sessions.

On 13 January in Moscow, in the framework of the VIIth Gaidar Forum 2016, the international conference "Russia and the World: Looking to the Future" was launched.

The journal Acta Oeconomica (Volume 65, Issue s1, December 2015, pp. 7–23) published the article by Director of the Center for Real Sector of the Gaidar Institute Georgy Idrisov and Academic Director of the Gaidar Institute Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev, titled 'The Perspectives of Long-term Growth in Russia'.

The Russian Journal of Economics published the article written by Director of the Center for Real Sector of the Gaidar Institute Georgy Idrisov, Deputy Head of the International Department of Fiscal Sustainability of the Center for Macroeconomics and Finance Maria Kazakova, and senior researcher of the Center for Macroeconomics and Finance Andrey Polbin.

Issue No.18 of the analytical review – The Online Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of the Social and Economic Development – was published. The goal of the above review is to follow current trends and changes in the Russian economy.

On 25 December, RBC released an article by the Head of Budgetary Policy department Arseny Mamedov “Long range budget: what will the regions loose fr om cancelation of the transport tax” wh ere he discusses consequences coming from the transport tax cancelation in exchange for payments by owners of heavyweight truck according to ‘Platon’.

On 12–17 December, Scientific Director of  Gaidar Institute Sergei Drobyshevsky and leading researcher of the Center for the Study of Central Banking Studies at the RANEPA Pavel Trunin visited Beijing (People's Republic of China) to participate in the first meeting of G20 research centers 'G20 and Global Governance'.

On 21 December, Meduza.ru released the article by Head of the Center for Political Economy and Regional Development of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Irina Starodubrovskaya, where the author discusses the consequences of the popularization of the clash of civilizations ideology.

On 21 December, the newspaper Vedomosti published the article written by Head of the Gaidar Institute’s Monetary Policy Department Alexandra Bozhechkova and researcher Yevgeny Goriunov, Nuzhen li nam kapital’nyi control? [Do We Really Need Capital Control?], which reviews the history of the capital control issue.