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In the period from April 21 to 24, 2026, the XVI Eurasian Economic Youth Forum "Eurasian Synergy: Unity of the Peoples of Russia in the Era of Global Change" is taking place on the basis of USUE. The event was organized with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Free Economic Society of Russia and is timed to coincide with the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia, announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The forum featured open lectures by the Congress of Economists and Financiers. The First Deputy Director, Candidate of Economics L.V. Babich, presented the VolTS at the event.

On April 20, 2026, at the meeting of the Dissertation Council on April 24, 2026.02 at the Federal Research Center "Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences" (Apatity), Marina Anatolyevna Lebedeva successfully defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences in the specialty 5.2.3 – Regional and Sectoral Economics. The scientific supervisor is Doctor of Economics, Professor T.V. Uskova.

Marina Anatolyevna graduated from the graduate school of the VolSC RAS in 2021, and in 2026 she defended her PhD thesis on "Ensuring a balanced development of the old industrial region based on the modernization of its economy." Today, M.A. Lebedeva is an accomplished scientist in the field of regional economics.

The staff of the VolSC RAS sincerely congratulates Marina Anatolyevna on her high achievement!

The staff of the VolSC RAS are not only active blood donors and are included in the register of bone marrow donors, but also conduct research in this field. On the National Blood Donor Day in Russia, we share some of the results obtained as part of a comprehensive study of the specifics of public participation in donation and improving the effectiveness of the blood service.

The research results of the VolSC RAS related to the prospects for the development of self-employment in Russia were presented by A.V. Popov, PhD in Economics, at the X International Labor Forum, which was held on April 8-10, 2026 in St. Petersburg. The main organizers were the Government of St. Petersburg, the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States, St. Petersburg State University, with the support of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.

On April 14, 2026, a meeting of the working group on demography of the Commission of the General Council of the Party for the Protection of Motherhood, Childhood and Family Support was held on the topic "Scientific potential of Russia's demographic development." VolSC RAS was represented at the meeting by the Director of the VolSC RAS, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Economics, A.A. Shabunova. The event discussed issues related to the scientific justification of the need to assess the impact of various state policy measures in the field of demography (including childbearing) on the development of the Russian Federation, the role of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Demographic Development and Demographic Policy of the Russian Federation" in solving key population problems, scientific support for regional family, demographic policy, and as well as the development of a system of Human Resources Development Centers in the field of demography.

A conference of the Russian Association for the Advancement of Science was held on April 14, 2026. During the event, they discussed the consolidation of the country's scientific community and support for promising research projects, as well as outlined new priorities for the organization: strengthening the country's territorial connectivity, consolidating the scientific and educational community, and developing scientific diplomacy. The Vologda regional branch of the All-Russian Public Organization "Russian Association for the Promotion of Science" was represented by the Chief Scientific Secretary, Ph.D. T.I. Sokolova.

On April 7, 2026, scientists from the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in the IX Rimashev readings "Saving the population of Russia: health, employment, standard and quality of life", organized by the Rimashevskaya Institute of Socio-Economic Problems of Population, a structural unit of the Federal Research Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This year, researchers from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and China participated in the conference. Many Russian research centers and universities from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Petrozavodsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Vologda, Tyumen, Ulan-Ude were represented. VolSC RAS was represented at the event by A.A. Shabunova, Director of the VolSC RAS, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Economics; G.V. Leonidova, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Socio-Demographic Research of the VolSC RAS; and T.S. Solovyova, Ph.D., Senior Researcher at the Center for Socio-Demographic Research of the VolSC RAS.

From March 30 to April 3, 2026, the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the XI International scientific and practical Internet conference "Global Challenges and Regional Development in the mirror of Sociological Dimensions", organized jointly with the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. It was attended by reputable scientists, young specialists, graduate students and undergraduates from 28 regions of Russia, as well as from Armenia, Belarus, and China. During the event, 109 reports were presented in 3 thematic sections. 137 researchers, including 45 candidates and 8 doctors of sciences, took part in the conference. A joint discussion took place on topical issues of the development of Russia and a number of foreign countries in the context of global global challenges. In the format of an online discussion on the Internet forum, the participants got acquainted with the presented works and asked questions to the authors of the reports.

On April 7, 2026, employees of the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences – Head of the Center for Spatial Development of Socio-Economic Systems, Candidate of Economics S.A. Kozhevnikov and Head of the Laboratory of Intelligent and Software Information Systems V.A. Rigin - visited the Situational Center for Socio–Economic Development of the Regions of the Russian Federation of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the experience and potential of the Situation Center, as well as to discuss the possibility of creating an interactive visualization of microdata available at the VolSC RAS.

On April 9, 2026, at the meeting of the permanent seminar "Social Economics" within the framework of the scientific school "Problems of socio-demographic development of territories", A.V. Fetyukov, M.Sc. of the Center for Socio-Demographic Research (head – Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor A.A. Shabunova), presented a report on the topic "Assessment of the potential contribution of education of young people specialists in the socio-economic development of the region", which proposed and justified an assessment methodology that combines the absolute and relative magnitude of the potential contribution of young professionals to the socio-economic development of the region.

The Russian Russian Science Foundation Lecture Hall will be held from April 20 to 24, 2026 and will be aimed at popularizing the results of scientific research and informing young scientists about possible scientific career paths. In 2024-2025, the lecture hall hosted 710 presentations by grantees from 195 scientific organizations in 83 cities of Russia, and the total number of full-time participants in the events was more than 15,000 people. This year, the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences participates in the campaign and invites everyone to lectures from our grantees.

The monograph by A.A. Sokolova, Ph.D. in Economics from the Center for Socio-Demographic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reflects an assessment of the scale, consequences and approaches to regulating return labor migration in the Russian Federation. The paper summarizes and updates the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study: the author's interpretation of the term "return labor migration" is proposed, its main and specific criteria and signs are identified, as well as the place of pendulum and shift labor migration in the migration structure, and a methodology for assessing the economic consequences of return labor migration is developed.

On April 2, 2026, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, organized a round table entitled "Municipalities and supporting settlements in the spatial development of the Russian Federation and its regions." The results of the research conducted by the Scientific Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the problems of spatial development of Russia were presented by the head of the Center for the Study of Spatial Development of Socio-Economic Systems, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Economics S.A. Kozhevnikov, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Economics N.V. Voroshilov, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Economics E.D. Kopytova, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Economics I.A. Sekushina, N.S., Candidate of Economics, S.S. Patrakova.

Dear applicants!

We invite you to an Open Day at the Vologda Science Center! The program of the event includes acquaintance with scientific departments, information about admission to master's and postgraduate studies. We are waiting for everyone who wants to learn more and take the first step towards new knowledge and opportunities!

The graduate school of the VolSC RAS has been operating since 1996. Over the period 1997-2025, 70 successful dissertations were defended. 136 people have completed their studies under the program, and 18 are undergoing training.

The Master's degree program of the VolSC RAS has been operating since 2017. During this period, 31 people have completed their studies, 16 are undergoing training.

The second issue of the bulletin "Public Administration Effectiveness in population assessments", which was prepared by scientists of the VolSC RAS, presents an analysis of the dynamics of public opinion based on the results of monitoring conducted in the Vologda Oblast from January 20 to February 11, 2026. The study focuses on comparing the population's assessments of the political and socio-economic situation in the country and the region with the results of previous measurements: over the last two "waves" of surveys (February 2026 to December 2025) and over 12 months.

The bulletin traditionally examines the opinions of residents of the region about the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and federal authorities, the Governor of the Vologda Oblast, regional and municipal governments, analyzes the population's perceptions of their own financial situation, the dynamics of consumer sentiment, the main trends in social mood, patience and protest potential.

The second issue of the year includes a special section dedicated to the assessment by the population of the results of the previous year and expectations from the year ahead. The dynamics of estimates is analyzed both in annual comparison (2025 to 2024) and in the long term – for the entire period of the CBR (the indicators of 2025 are compared with the data of 2022).