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"graduate School Economy" (NRU HSE) was founded in 1992. It is located in Moscow, on Myasnitskaya Street. This is one of the most popular and sought-after universities today.

The profile of this university is different socio-economic and humanitarian sciences, as well as mathematical sciences and computer science. The university has more than 20 departments and faculties. There is also a military department, as well as hostels for students.

In 2012, the Higher School included the Moscow state institute electronics and mathematics, and two additional institutions vocational education. The founder is the Government of Russia. HSE has several branches, namely in the following cities:

• In Nizhniy Novgorod;
• In Perm;
• In St. Petersburg.

HSE in our time

In 2011, the National Research University Higher School of Economics was awarded the status of a National Research University. It should be noted that graduates of this university have the opportunity to receive diplomas from European universities. The university has more than 130 international partners in different countries. Foreign languages in a large volume are taught at any faculties, and at some faculties teaching is conducted entirely in English. In addition to teaching masters, postgraduates and bachelors, the National Research University Higher School of Economics regularly organizes courses for schoolchildren of the most different levels difficulty: from 7 to 11 classes. In these courses, university teachers prepare students for the GIA, the Unified State Examination and the Olympiads. It should also be noted that HSE has seven dormitories. A network of inter-faculty and faculty basic departments has been created in this educational institution. Teaching is conducted only by experienced and highly qualified practitioners from non-profit and commercial enterprises of business and science, as well as authorities government controlled.

The university has many different faculties that train specialists in almost all spheres of life.

We note the main faculties of the Higher School of Economics:

• economy;
• business informatics;
• stories;
• logistics;
• management;
• mathematics;
• Faculty of Law;
• applied political science;
• philology;
• Faculty of Sociology;
• Faculty of Philosophy, as well as many other faculties.

I would also like to note that the HSE became one of the few universities in which the military department was left after military reform. To date, the military department trains specialists in seven military training specialties. And since 2011, the High Command ground forces performs general management of the military department.

It should be noted that the Higher School of Economics publishes over 20 scientific journals:

• education issues;
• the world of Russia;
• issues of municipal and state administration;
• foresight;
• corporate finance;
• Demoscope Weekly;
• economic journal;
• economic sociology.

Since 1994, the formation of the library fund of the university took place. Currently, the total book fund is more than 500 thousand copies. However, electronic subscription is a priority: it includes a variety of databases of domestic and foreign scientific periodicals, newspapers, analytics, encyclopedias and dictionaries, e-books. As for periodicals, it covers almost a complete list of publications on the subject of the university. Access to the electronic subscription is available from all computers of the university, for students and employees also from the outside.

Since 2000, the university has its own publishing house. And already in 2009, opened its own bookstore called "BukVyshka", located in Moscow.

• 2013 "4 International Colleges & Universities", (3rd place)
• 2012 "4 International Colleges & Universities", (2nd place)
• 2010 "Webometrics", (2nd place)
• 2010 RIA NOVOSTI, ranking of universities Russian Federation by average USE score(3rd place)
• 2008 Journal "Direct Investments", universities in terms of salary of graduates (1st place)
• 2008 Journal "Direct Investments", the most prestigious and sought-after universities of the Russian Federation (2nd place)
• 2007 Kommersant, the most popular universities in the Russian Federation (1st place).

Thus, the Higher School of Economics regularly occupies a leading position in various prestigious rankings.

In 2009, a competition was held in Russia among universities that claim to be awarded the title of "national research university". The HSE was one of the few winners and the only university among 14 Russian National Research Universities with a socio-economic profile. It should be noted that research activities given in such areas as the history of economic thought, economic theory, instrumental and mathematical methods in economics, macroeconomics, law, sociology, psychology, education, public administration, political research, and information science.

Important research projects in cooperation with leading universities: Peking University, Stanford University, Sorbonne, Shanghai University. The university has its own NRU, Science Foundation and Center fundamental research, various scientific centers as well as laboratories.

The very first design and training laboratory was established in the spring of 2009 in the Nizhny Novgorod branch, and today more than 10 such laboratories and groups operate at the Higher School of Economics. There are currently twenty research institutes as well as 11 research centers.

Summing up, we can conclude that the Higher School of Economics is undoubtedly one of the most popular universities in Russia. Students from various cities and countries study at this university. Training is conducted in a wide range of specialties. The leading places in various rankings, as well as the activities of the university, testify to the huge popularity and demand for the Higher School of Economics.

Photo: Press Service of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow. Denis Grishkin

Employees of one of the largest universities in the country received distinctions “For Impeccable Service to the City of Moscow”, honorary titles, certificates and thanks from the Mayor of Moscow.

Presented awards from the city of Moscow to 20 employees of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE). “The Higher School of Economics is a leading university both in the country and in Moscow, so I have always been anxious and paid attention to the development of this university,” he said.

According to him, it is important for the city that new high-tech enterprises, technology parks and other significant facilities appear. “But the most important and most important thing is the people who will work for them, who will not leave Moscow, but will be engaged in the development of the social sphere, the economy, work at capital enterprises, in government bodies. This is the golden fund that will determine the future of our city and, I am sure, the future of our country. And you will cope with it with dignity,” added the Mayor of Moscow.

He also thanked the staff of the Higher School of Economics for their interaction with schools and the creation of a pre-university school — the Higher School of Economics Lyceum, which took first place in Moscow among school educational institutions. Sergei Sobyanin stressed: “This, of course, is a great merit of the schools where the guys came to you from, but, of course, this is also the merit of the teachers.”

Five people were awarded the distinction "For irreproachable service to the city of Moscow." Awards for 40 years of service received:

— Kuznetsova Tatyana Evgenievna, Director of the Center for Scientific, Technical, Innovation and Information Policy of the Institute statistical studies and knowledge economy;

— Maltseva Svetlana Valentinovna, Professor of the Department of Innovation and Business in the field of information technologies School of Business Informatics, Faculty of Business and Management;

— Porus Vladimir Natanovich, Professor of the School of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities.

Among employees with 30 years of work experience, the distinction "For Impeccable Service to the City of Moscow" was given to:

— Samoilenko Vladimir Anatolyevich, vice-rector;

— Filinov-Chernyshev Nikolai Borisovich, Professor of the Department of General and Strategic Management of the School of Business and Business Administration of the Faculty of Business and Management.

The merits of the teachers of the Higher School of Economics were also awarded the title of "Honorary Worker of Education of the City of Moscow", a certificate of honor from the Government of Moscow and gratitude from the Mayor of Moscow.

Seven thousand teachers and 65 thousand graduates

The National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE) was founded in Moscow on November 27, 1992. Campuses educational institution now open in four Russian cities- Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Perm.

About seven thousand teachers and researchers work at the university and more than 35 thousand students and graduate students study. Main programs higher education already has 65 thousand graduates.

The Higher School of Economics actively cooperates with the Government of Moscow in solving the problems of the development of the capital.

In 2017/2018 academic year 280 first-fourth-year undergraduate students became nominal scholarship holders of the Moscow Government program. This status can be obtained by students who take an active part in city projects.

Cooperation with Moscow schools

The Higher School of Economics is an important partner of the city in the implementation of major educational programs. One of them is the Moscow Pre-University project. As part of it, the Higher School of Economics Lyceum was created, where students in grades 10 and 11 receive specialized training in eight areas. In the 2017/2018 academic year, 519 people study at the lyceum (of which 12 are children with disabilities), more than 150 employees of the Higher School of Economics teach.

In 2017 at the final stage All-Russian Olympiad schoolchildren, lyceum students as part of the Moscow team won 10 diplomas of winners and 29 diplomas of prize-winners. 24 out of 710 HSE lyceum graduates received 100 points in one of the USE subjects.

The Higher School of Economics cooperates with 48 Moscow schools. The work is carried out within the framework of the Engineering Class project. University professors conduct design seminars and special courses to better prepare high school students who dream of an engineering specialty for the pre-professional exam.

HSE is an active participant in University Saturdays. During this educational project, teachers give scientific and educational lectures to schoolchildren.

In addition, the Higher School of Economics is holding the regional stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in economics, law, English language, as well as the Moscow Olympiad for Schoolchildren in Informatics. University teachers organize mathematical clubs in Moscow schools, prepare children for various stages of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in law.

The Higher School of Economics performs research and analytical work within the framework of the state program "Development of Education in the City of Moscow" ("Capital Education") for 2012-2018. University staff give public lectures at museums, at VDNKh, at the ZIL Cultural Center and at other city venues.

Assistance in the development of transport infrastructure

The research potential of the HSE is involved in solving topical issues in the development of urban transport infrastructure. In 2016, scientific groups created on the basis of the university conducted comprehensive studies transport system Moscow (determination of the matrix of inter-district correspondence using multiple information sources).

The researchers collected and processed big data on the movement of citizens based on information from cellular operators and indicators of urban passenger traffic. Terabytes of data were collected on the use of ground transport in Moscow: statistics of landings and disembarkations, frequency and speed of movement, load on roads and transfer hubs.

Thanks to this study, the Metropolitan Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development received a tool for qualitative adjustment of the route network. This made it possible in October 2016 to launch a new route network of ground transport "Magistral" in the capital.

In 2018, the HSE plans to develop new model passenger river transport in Moscow.

Economic Policy and the Moscow Urban Forum

In the field economic policy HSE staff, together with specialists from the Department of Economic Policy and Development of the City of Moscow and the State Budgetary Institution Analytical Center, develop recommendations for improving the system of official statistical accounting. Specialists are also preparing proposals on the main approaches to the calculation of statistical indicators. The task of this work is to improve the quality and reliability of statistical data necessary for making managerial decisions.

In 2015, the HSE structural unit, the Graduate School of Urban Studies, acted as the program directorate of the Moscow Urban Forum. Its key topic is "Moscow as a dynamic metropolis: practices of flexible management". And for the Moscow Urban Forum in 2016, HSE scientists conducted a study “Moscow: a course towards polycentricity. Evaluation of the effects of urban planning projects on the polycentric development of Moscow”.

In the war for the oil and gas and fishing resources of the Arctic, for commercial shipping routes, Russia will be the main loser, says Sergei Medvedev, professor at the Higher School of Economics. Earlier, on Facebook, he proposed to give the Arctic under international jurisdiction, and when this initiative was reported to the president at his meeting with United Russia activists, Putin said in a whisper "moron", breaking the applause. In the transcript on the Kremlin website, instead of this word is: "He was joking." Medvedev first wrote on FB that he takes a personal insult from the head of state as a reward, and then deleted this message and promised to clarify his position on the Arctic in Forbes.

According to Sergei Medvedev, Russia will lose the war for the Arctic because of the consequences of the environmental disaster that is already “taking place” there and can turn into a “catastrophe”. He notes that oil production is “the dirtiest industry in Russia”, and in the event of an accident, the consequences will be worse than in the Gulf of Mexico: technologically, no more than 10% of spilled oil can be collected in the waters of the Arctic. The economist explains the pursuit of the Arctic shelf not by considerations of sovereignty or national interests of Russia, but by the selfish goals of oil corporations, whose Arctic infrastructure is “created at the expense of the state budget.”

Medvedev explains that he is not proposing a renunciation of the sovereignty of states within existing borders and territorial waters, but of exclusive economic zones and from economic and military activities in the Arctic. The economist believes that Russia's national interests lie "not in the installation of titanium flags at the bottom and not in the illusion of territorial acquisitions, not in new military bases and not in "energy security" (which, in fact, covers the interests of oil corporations), but in environmental security of the country and its sustainable development”.

The article also says that there are not many proven oil reserves on the Arctic shelf, and exploration and production will be expensive at cost, and the oil on the shelf is of “low quality”. According to the author, the Russians will not see any oil that will be exported, "nor tax deductions, due to the same almost zero profitability." Medvedev emphasizes that sovereignty is not only the legal possession of a territory, but also "the ability to use it rationally and pass it on safely to future generations." From this point of view, the country has lost sovereignty "over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory that are flooded with oil, contaminated with radiation and other traces of economic and military activity," he writes.

The day before, Putin called the Arctic "an integral part of the Russian Federation, which has been under our sovereignty for several centuries." The proposal to give her under someone's control, given the possibility of launching missiles at Moscow from American submarines, the president described as "anti-people" and complete stupidity.

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Created in the wake of the liberal reforms of the 1990s, the HSE now earns billions by operating as a think tank for the government and presidential administration. RBC figured out how she managed to win money and the trust of the state

Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC

“They are absolutely frankly inciting here, de facto preparing such a Maidan underground and are the very fifth column ... Why do we tolerate the existence of such organized terrorist groups under the auspices of the political faculty of the Higher School of Economics? This is fine?" - the host of the TV channel "Russia" Vladimir Solovyov was indignant in February 2014 in his program on the radio "Vesti FM". The reason was a student of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Yulia Arkhipova. The TV presenter thought she sympathized with in social networks protesters on the Maidan citizens of Ukraine.

Less than a year before the transfer, searches were carried out at the university in the third Yukos case, investigators came to the chair of Mikhail Fedotov, presidential adviser on human rights, who participated in the examination of the company's second criminal case. Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov's contract was ending in the spring of 2014, the government was delaying its renewal.

As a result, the contract was extended for another five years. “I didn't see the 'expert case' as a threat to HSE,” the rector now recalls. — Vyshka is too large and significant university, and investigative actions were carried out about several of our employees. Although the case itself seems strange and artificial to me, to worry about the position of one of the investigators of the Investigative Committee. Kuzminov himself has become even closer to power than his university: over the past year, he was elected to the Moscow City Duma and appointed co-chairman of the Moscow branch of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). The declared income of the rector increased from 19.9 million to 45.2 million rubles. in year. University revenues (excluding capital investments and investments) have grown by more than 30% in two years. How did the HSE manage to win money and the trust of the state?

Not exactly liberal

The Higher School of Economics likes to say that the resolution on its creation in November 1992 is one of the last documents signed by Yegor Gaidar as head of government. The HSE “has long been the favorite plaything of liberals at the helm,” Kuzminov recalls. The founding fathers of the university in one way or another were in the 1990s related to power. HSE Academic Supervisor Evgeny Yasin, former Minister of Economics, tenured professor Yakov Urinson, and HSE President Alexander Shokhin served as Deputy Prime Ministers. Only one person did not work as an official among them - the permanent rector Kuzminov.

“The government’s order to appoint a rector in 2014 was issued a few days later than the end of Kuzminov’s contract, so, according to the law, he was fired (for the first time in his entire career at HSE), and with him all vice-rectors who had a contract tied to the rector's contract, explains Novoseltsev. The university was obliged to pay them for all unused vacations. Yaroslav Ivanovich was credited with an additional 24.5 million for almost 700 days of vacation since 1993. Some vice-rectors who have been working the longest - from 6 to 13 million. Vice-Rector Zhulin attributed the changes in his income to personal real estate transactions. Jacobson admitted that he participated in several successful projects: "It's hard work, I don't want to make excuses, but the money we are paid is not in vain."

Fight for buildings

A constant topic of Kuzminov's conversations with the authorities is the premises for the university. The rapidly growing university is constantly short of square meters, says the rector, despite the fact that in 2010-2014 the total area of ​​HSE buildings doubled - from 200 to 400 thousand square meters. m. Auditoriums are organized in the building of a former weaving factory, business centers, the Ministry of Chemical Industry. From a hotel affiliated with State Academy investment specialists, the university made a hostel. “We usually get wild junk,” the rector complains.

Target subsidies from the federal budget are allocated for major repairs and construction. The largest ones are under the capital investment program, which is not included in the general budget of the university. So, in 2010, the university received 14.9 billion rubles for the reconstruction of buildings in Moscow and St. Petersburg. For overhaul in 2014 - 533.2 million rubles, in 2013 - 340 million.

In 1994, Alexander Shokhin, then the Minister of Economy of Russia, handed over two buildings to the HSE. One of them on Kochnovsky passage, the former Research Institute of Planning and Regulations under the State Planning Commission (Photo: HSE Archive)

The squares are scattered throughout Moscow and the Moscow region, but the lion's share, including the "junk", is located in the expensive center - on Myasnitskaya, Pokrovsky Boulevard, Petrovka, Ordynka. “We managed to convince the country's leadership that the university should develop in the center of the capital. The specificity of Vyshka is that it is a leading expert center. We need to be closer to the federal authorities who want to use our services,” says Shokhin.

One of the last buildings that Kuzminov received is a new house on Myasnitskaya 11. It stands opposite the HSE building, in which the rector's office has been sitting since the mid-1990s. In 1997, Kuzminov and Shokhin observed the beginning of construction, which would drag on for 15 years. Only in 2010 did the HSE ask Prime Minister Putin to buy space for the university in a building under construction. Putin ordered to allocate 2.2 billion rubles to the university.

According to the estimates of Knight Frank and Swiss Appraisal, office rent in the area of ​​Myasnitskaya and Pokrovsky Boulevard next to the HSE premises costs an average of 25,000 rubles. for 1 sq. m per year. Price square meter premises on average is 215 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m, experts of the two companies estimated. This means that the approximate price of a house on Myasnitskaya 11 could reach almost 3 billion rubles.

The total area of ​​Vyshka, together with the rent (according to Vice-Rector Alexander Shamrin, 500 million rubles were spent on renting real estate in 2014), according to the HSE, is 522.3 thousand square meters. m, its book value is 8.4 billion rubles. This is several times less than that of Moscow State University: according to the report of the university, the university uses 1.35 million square meters. m worth 42.2 billion rubles. A few years ago, the government and the president considered the idea of ​​transferring the premises of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Courts to the HSE or buying space in business centers. But in the end, the authorities abandoned both options, Kuzminov regrets.

The Federal Property Management Agency has less data on HSE real estate: about 60 buildings, eight apartments and several dozen premises. Total area - 390 thousand sq. m. The cadastral (close to the market) value of only Moscow real estate, according to Rosreestr and RBC calculations, is more than 16 billion rubles

Then the university presented the idea of ​​a distributed campus to the leadership of the country. According to him, says Shokhin, the university should expand along the orange metro line: st. Myasnitskaya - Pokrovsky Boulevard - metro station "Leninsky Prospekt". The idea is supported and lobbied by the head of the supervisory board of the university, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, and Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, Shokhin and Kuzminov say.

In April 2015, Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Education and Science to transfer 110 thousand square meters to the HSE by 2017. m of classrooms and laboratories and 30 thousand square meters. m of dormitories of inefficient universities, "located in close proximity to the main educational buildings of the Higher School of Economics." In July, Kuzminov, in a letter to the Prime Minister (RBC has both documents), complained about the ministry: “Currently, options for transferring property complexes are not being discussed.” Medvedev wrote on the letter "Why are you not following orders?" and sent it to the Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov. "Agreement process<…>is quite difficult, but the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia must fulfill the order of D.A. Medvedev on time," RBC was told at the ministry. While the dormitory of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in Lefortovo has passed to the university, two more premises of the Moscow University of Food Production next to the Tekstilshchiki metro station are in line.

In the near future, the HSE may receive buildings not only from the Ministry of Education. According to Shamrin, now “work is underway with the Moscow government to form a list for the exchange of university buildings” remote from the center for buildings inside the Garden Ring. There are no specific proposals yet, but the press service of the Moscow Property Department confirmed the fact of negotiations.

How do you get loyalty

AT Russian universities it is customary for boards of trustees to be headed by officials. Assistant to the President Vladislav Surkov is the head of the council at the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman; State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin - at RANEPA; The board of trustees of Moscow State University is headed by Vladimir Putin.

“At some meeting, Yaroslav [Kuzminov] suggested that Volodin [the first deputy head of the presidential administration] go to the supervisory board. And he agreed, we are friends and work together. He does not participate in solving academic affairs, but helps in solving those issues that allow the university to develop, ”recalls scientific director HSE Yasin. Volodin headed the council in April 2014. In addition to him, the council includes Olga Dergunova (Rosimushchestvo), Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow Leonid Pechatnikov.

In 2010, it was Yaroslav Kuzminov who suggested that Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, create a "Strategy-2020" (Photo: RIA Novosti)

The functions of the supervisory and board of trustees at the university are separated. The first is responsible for the economy and strategy, the second - for raising finance. The Board of Trustees is headed by German Gref and its members are Viktor Vekselberg, Arkady Volozh, Mikhail Zadornov, Leonid Mikhelson, Vadim Moshkovich and Mikhail Prokhorov. Unlike Moscow State University, which receives large donations from wealthy graduates, the trustees of the university did not graduate and they have to be attracted by projects, and not “feelings for alma mater Shokhin says. Targeted receipts and voluntary donations, including from the university trustees, amount to 200-250 million rubles. per year, calculated Novoseltsev.

Kuzminov himself invited officials to the supervisory board. “I can make an appointment with the president and present the project. And I can come to Dmitry Anatolyevich myself. For me, Volodin is not a person who will go somewhere for me. But he is much more embedded in power, and it is important for me that he understands what we are doing here. We have known Volodin for a long time. And we have a mutual friend — German Gref,” explains the rector of the curator’s invitation domestic policy to the university. Members of the supervisory board meet monthly, its head is always present at meetings, says a source close to Volodin. According to him, the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration communicates with Kuzminov even more often. “Especially often they communicate now, when Kuzminov has become co-chairman of the Moscow branch of the ONF,” he says. - With some decisions, the chairman of the supervisory board goes to the government. Sometimes you just need to control the execution by officials of the orders of the president and the government related to the university.”

According to Kuzminov, the government did not immediately agree on Volodin's candidacy. The question was decided by Medvedev. Kuzminov says: “The prime minister called me and asked if it was my own decision. I explained, and a few days later he signed everything.” A source in the cabinet of ministers says that no one was against it: "Let one person be responsible for the ideology, the government will not participate in this."

“Yaroslav Kuzminov is a good economist. His knowledge and the potential of the Higher School of Economics will be useful in the Moscow City Duma,” former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin wrote on Twitter after the election of Yaroslav Kuzminov to the Moscow City Duma (Photo: RIA Novosti)

Volodin is a university man, says a source in his entourage: “He worked at a university for 10 years, went through all the steps from an assistant to a professor, then returned to this work, including heading the department of state construction at Moscow State University.” The Kommersant newspaper called the people of Volodin the rector of the Russian University of Economics them. Plekhanov Viktor Grishin, rector of the First Moscow State medical university them. Sechenov Petr Glybochko and Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration of Moscow State University political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov.

Several HSE teachers interviewed by RBC are sure that the struggle for premises was the reason why Kuzminov agreed to be nominated as a deputy to the Moscow City Duma and become co-chairman of the Moscow branch of the ONF, which Volodin also oversees. The rector himself says: “When I decided to go to the Moscow City Duma, we got together with colleagues dealing with the problems of the urban environment, social, budgetary spheres, wrote a program, which we are now implementing. True, the university itself, in the sense of the campus, has not yet received anything from this, which does not diminish our interest in participating in Moscow life.” According to a source close to the Moscow City Duma, Sobyanin personally asked Kuzminov to be nominated. The rector says that he himself decided to become a deputy. But, for example, Volodin gave him advice during the campaign on how to behave with voters. During the elections to the Moscow City Duma, there was a request for people like Kuzminov, says a source close to Volodin. He is well-known in the city, represents the university community, and besides this, the liberal electorate is noticeable in Moscow, the interlocutor lists the reasons. As an alternative, the candidacy of the editor-in-chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta Konstantin Remchukov was considered, but in the end the choice was made in favor of the rector of the Higher School of Economics, he added.

Kuzminov has known the head of the HSE Supervisory Board, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin for many years. “And Volodin and I have a mutual friend, German Gref,” says HSE Rector (Photo: RIA Novosti)

“The topic of joining the ONF was previously discussed with me,” Kuzminov comments on another of his political steps. - But in the end, I personally made the decision, no one put me up against the wall. What we wrote in Strategy 2020, and what Putin later used in his election articles, I consider it correct and necessary for the development of the country. When a lot of things began to go out before my eyes, I decided that I should try to do something not only as an expert. Kuzminov's proposal to enter the leadership of the Moscow headquarters of the ONF was spontaneous, says a source close to Volodin. “The co-chairman of the central headquarters of the ONF, Alexander Brechalov, named him the first. The Moscow branch had to be strengthened, and Kuzminov himself was interested in working in the city, and he has an established team, ”he notes.

Volodin does not make any personnel decisions at the Higher School of Economics, Kuzminov assures, he is engaged in “financial control” and “approval of strategic, programmatic documents for the university.” But rapprochement with the authorities affects the academic policy of the university, two sources close to the rector's office believe. HSE Vice-Rector Konstantin Sonin was fired after an interview with the German publication Der Spiegel, in which he said that Putin would hold on to power to the last and that the Russian response to the sanctions did more harm to the country than the sanctions themselves. After the interview, Kuzminov called Sonin and asked him to resign as vice-rector, continuing to lecture. Sonin soon left to work at the University of Chicago, at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies.

At the insistence from above, the HSE also had to change the leadership of the faculty of media communications, which was headed by Anna Kachkaeva, the interlocutors say. Having connected several departments of the university, Kuzminov, instead of Kachkaeva, appointed the chairman of the state broadcasting company Voice of Russia Andrei Bystritsky as the head of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design. Both decisions, according to a source close to the leadership of the university, are "a payment for loyalty." In addition, in the fall of 2014, the name of one of the editors, the well-known economist Sergey Aleksashenko, disappeared from the collection “Comments on the State and Business”, which is published by the HSE Development Center. “As far as I know, Kuzminov was told in the Kremlin, and he told the director of the center that my name should not appear on the front page,” Aleksashenko himself says. He refused to edit the collection further. Kuzminov does not remember such a story.

According to a source close to Volodin, "the rector himself has an excellent understanding of what is good and what is bad, and internal responsibility to the government and the president." He also recalls that, for example, Professor Oleg Matveichev (who called on his blog to “crush liberals with tanks”) came to the HSE before Volodin. Kuzminov confirmed that he had a conversation about the Spiegel interview with Sonin. “And I said that this is generally not good. But to managerial decision it has nothing to do with it,” he says. - Both the decisions about Sonin and about Anya [Kachkaeva] were made consciously, for administrative reasons. If the layoffs were necessary to maintain the position of the university and political protection, I assure you, I would not fail to do so. But it wasn't necessary." The rector recalls the recent scandal with another of his employees, Professor Sergei Medvedev. He publicly offered to give the Arctic to the international community, after which Putin called the professor's speech "complete stupidity." Medvedev continues to work at the university. He confirmed to RBC that he did not have a conversation with the rector on this issue.

Kuzminov has been the head of the HSE for 23 years and is not going to leave his position yet: “I like my work, I feel every day that I bring benefit to my country, students and colleagues.” According to Alexander Auzan, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University, a classmate of Kuzminov and a witness at his wedding, Vyshka is still a start-up. Confidently keeps afloat, but "it cannot be said that it is unsinkable." The tower is unbalanced due to its rapid and intensive development. At the same time, she is strongly closed in connection with the authorities. If any change happens suddenly, it will be very difficult for her. I’m sure Slava [Kuzminov] is aware of this problem,” says his friend and competitor.

With the participation of Mikhail Rubin, Stepan Opalev, Roman Badanin, Elena Myazina