<strong>Ekaterina Yuryevna Kosevich</strong>, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University, PhD in Political Science and a specialist in Latin America, has been awarded a five-year HSE University research bonus for regular publications in international peer-reviewed academic journals for the <strong>2026–2031 period.</strong>

A new article by Ekaterina Kosevich, a Latin America specialist, PhD in Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University, has been published in Problems of Post-Communism (Q1), a journal included in HSE University’s Category A list of academic publications. The article examines the transformation of Russia’s relations with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean after 2022.

Ekaterina Yuryevna Kosevich, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University, PhD in Political Science and an expert on Latin America, participated in the юбilee scientific conference marking the 65th anniversary of the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILAS RAS).

Egor Prokhin, Expert at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, held a seminar titled<strong> Risk Management Strategies in Emerging Markets </strong>at the Faculty of Economics of Shenzhen MSU-BIT University. The meeting was attended by more than 90 students.

On June 16, 2026, HSE and PKU held the first joint online-workshop “The Global South: New Prospects for Cooperation”. The format was initially proposed and by Fei Haiting, Tenured Associate Professor at the School of Government of Peking University and supported by Anastasiia Piatachkova, Deputy Head of the Asia-Pacific Sector at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) of HSE University during her long-term internship at Peking University. The event brought together leading experts from both countries for an in-depth discussion of the conceptual foundations, regional specifics, and prospects for multilateral interaction among Global South countries amid the transformation of the world order.

Experts from the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE University, together with colleagues from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have prepared an analytical report titled China’s Smart Industry Model: AI, Robotization and Energy in the Context of Russia-China Cooperation.

The book Axolotl: The Legend of the Cowardly Aztec God by Ekaterina Kosevich — a Latin America expert, Candidate of Political Sciences, and Leading Research Fellow at the HSE University Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies — has officially been included in the longlist of the prestigious Moscow Literary Biennale Prize in the “Children’s Prose” category.

An article by Ekaterina Kosevich, Latin America expert, Candidate of Political Sciences, and Leading Research Fellow at HSE University’s Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), has been published in the prestigious international journal Latin American Perspectives (USA; HSE University List A, Scopus Q1).

Egor Prokhin, an expert at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) of HSE University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, took part in the anniversary annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia 2026, held on Hainan Island from March 24 to 27, 2026.

A major review of the monograph Extra-regional Powers in Latin America in the 21st Century: The Impact of the US, EU, China, and Russia (Brill, 2024), written by Latin America expert, PhD in Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow at HSE University Ekaterina Kosevich, has been published in the leading academic journal Latin American Politics and Society (Cambridge University Press).

Nicole Bodishteanu, Analyst at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, emphasized that Moldova’s planned withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States is primarily a political move with potentially significant economic and geopolitical consequences.

Du 2 au 4 février 2026, dans le cadre du séminaire scientifique franco-russe organisé par l’Institut de prévision économique nationale de l’Académie des sciences de Russie (INP RAN) conjointement avec le Centre d’études de l’industrialisation de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), s’est tenue la présentation du rapport de l’économiste français de renom Jacques Sapir, directeur d’études à l’EHESS et professeur à l’École de guerre économique (Paris).

The publishing house Nestor-Istoriya (St. Petersburg) has released a book by Ekaterina Kosevich—an expert on Latin America, PhD in Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University—titled Axolotl: The Legend of a Cowardly Aztec God. Ekaterina Kosevich is both the author of the text and the illustrator: the edition includes 20 original author’s drawings.

We congratulate Egor Prokhin, an expert at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE University, and a lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, on being selected for the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s Visiting Fellowship at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.

Ekaterina Kosevich, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University, PhD in Political Science and an expert on Latin America, provided a commentary to the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio on the current state and future prospects of relations between Russia and Venezuela.

Ekaterina Kosevich, a leading research fellow at the HSE Center for Comprehensive International Studies and International Relations and a specialist in Latin America, provided commentary to the international television channel TRT World, an English-language news and analytical media outlet covering international political and economic processes and targeting a global audience.

An article by Ekaterina Kosevich, PhD in Political Science and Leading Research Fellow at the CCEIS, HSE University, has been published in the reputable U.S.-based journal Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization (HSE University List “A”, Scopus Q2).

The journal Naukozaciya, founded and developed by Latin America expert Ekaterina Kosevich, Candidate of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow at HSE University, has signed cooperation agreements with two Latin American research centers — the Observatório Rússia–América Latina at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, PUC Minas, Brazil) and the Centro de Estudios Tales de Mileto in Argentina.

On October 28, 2025, a lecture by Latin America expert Ekaterina Kosevich, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CEMIS), HSE University, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Наукозация", was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima).