The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was held from September 28 to October 1, 2026 under the theme ‘Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?’ The forum brought together 120 experts from 40 countries, including representatives of China, the United States, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Iran, and Japan.
The HSE International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis studies a wide range of methods for analysing decision-making and possible scenarios for the development of natural, socio-economic, and political phenomena using various mathematical models. The application of advanced mathematical methods to forecasting helps to prevent negative outcomes and avoid erroneous decisions. The HSE News Service spoke to the centre’s director, Prof. Fuad Aleskerov, about its work.
The International N5 Symposium ‘Neural Networks and Nonlinearity in Nizhny Novgorod’ was held at the Nizhny Novgorod House of Scientists from September 23 to 26. The event was organised by HSE University–Nizhny Novgorod and the Nizhny Novgorod House of Scientists, with the participation of Sberbank and the Institute of Physics Belgrade. The symposium was held for the second time: the first conference took place in 2025 and attracted considerable interest from the academic community.
Мамонова С. К., Фольклор: структура, типология, семиотика 2023 Т. 6 № 1 С. 74–92
The paper is an attempt to identify the main symbolic meanings of the girl’s braid in the texts of wedding lamentations. In the modern researches (works of E.L. Madlevskaya, S.M. Tolstaya, A.V. Gura) the braid was considered only as one subject substitute for the volya/krásota an abstract concept that combined the idea of youth, beauty, ...
Voevodskiy A., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2022 Т. 40 № 3 С. 84–107
The article examines the activities of Protestant missionaries in South Africa. It was the most important component of the processes of the formation of a colonial society and the transformation of African society in the 19th century. Based on memoirs, travel journals, diaries and letters of missionaries, as well as official publications of the British ...
We show that if we are given a smooth non-isotrivial family of curves of genus 1 over C with a smooth base B for which the general fiber of the mapping J : B → A 1 (assigning j-invariant of the fiber to a point) is connected, then the monodromy group of the family (acting ...