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Professor of the School of Finance Dmitry Tikhomirov received an official message of thanks from the head of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) for cooperation and active participation in solving issues, related to raising the professional and cultural level of the Russian Federation, and cooperation with the charitable foundation for supporting social and public initiatives «Stat.Ap».

On December 14th, 2022, the Durasov’s House White Hall saw an award ceremony for HSE employees for outstanding results in their professional activities and on the occasion of the university’s 30th anniversary.

On November 24th, the School of Finance staff and experts got together in anticipation of the Higher School of Economics 30th anniversary. Summing up the results of the past period, the head of the School of Finance, Doctor of Economics, tenured professor Irina Ivashkovskaya stated that during this period the School of Finance managed to make a qualitative growth in many areas:

Professor of the School of Finance Dmitry Tikhomirov received an official message of thanks, signed by Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of VEB.RF, for his high professionalism in preparing a training program on project financing as part of the implementation of the "Open Business" project at VEB.RF.

On June 6th, within the framework of the HSE Best Russian-Language Scientific and Popular Science Papers Competition, the paper “Relationship between Regional Socio-Economic Development and Corporate Ratings of Russian Companies” presented by the team of authors: Irina Ivashkovskaya, Elena Makeeva, Konstantin Popov and Liudmila Ruzhanskaya, became the winner in the nomination “Best Russian-Language Scientific Work”, and was awarded a certificate of honour.

On September 13, the annual HSE Day will take place in Gorky Park. This is an exciting event, open to people of all ages and backgrounds. Every year, the choice of activities becomes longer and longer. Find out here what’s on offer – there’s something for everyone.

The 2017 HSE Alumni Awards will shortly be open for nominations. The awards were founded in 2007 to recognise HSE graduates who have achieved professional success in the corporate sphere or their own businesses. Over the years, the winners have included Maxim Oreshkin, Russian Minister of Economic Development, Ilya Azar and Tonia Samsonova, journalists, Ksenia Mokrushina, Director of the Centre of Urban Studies at Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, and Vladimir Potapov, CEO at VTB Capital, among others.

The Best Teachers 2017 competition at HSE recently reached its completion. Although the overall procedure this year was the same as it was in 2016, the financial terms changed – the bonuses for the winners have been increased. Vadim Radaev, First Vice Rector of HSE, told us about the vote and some of the perks for all of the winners.

Several HSE instructors recognized as ‘the best’ in their fields would like congratulate students with the start of academic year and hope that they don’t give in to procrastination, take advantage of all opportunities available at HSE, have a good sleep before exams at least once, and remember that teachers are humans too!