The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research announces the next regular seminar, which will be held at HSE in Moscow (Kochnovskiy Pr. 3, room 625) on December 6 at 5 p.m. Igor Zadorin (Director of the  ZIRKON Research group; Director of the "Eurasian Monitor" project)  will deliver a report on "Together with others or on Their Own: Integration vs. Autonomization in Public Opinion of Post-Soviet Countries".

An international research consortium “Eurasian Monitor” with the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) conducted an investigation of integration attitudes among citizens of the post-Soviet pace in April-May of 2012. The project called “The Integration Barometer EDB” includes representative national surveys carried out in 10 countries of the CIS and also in Georgia. More than 13,000 people (from 950 to 2000 in each country) were interviewed.

It was the first time that such a large survey of public opinion in the CIS countries devoted to the post-Soviet integration (particularly, the establishment of economic and cooperative ties, social and business contacts, cultural interaction) had been conducted. The research revealed a detailed picture of the CIS citizen’s preferences in the various aspects of integration and cooperation of the region. It is supposed that the survey “The Integration Barometer EDB” will be held annually as a monitoring research. This will give an opportunity to evaluate the long-term trends in public opinion between citizens of the CIS countries.

All of the questions from the questionary's main theme block were constructed the same way: respondents were offered to choose contries from the list according to their believes about country's tipe: friendly/unfriendly, well-known/unknown, interesting/not-interesting etc. Scheduled list of answers enables to formulate three groups of conclusions related to each question - integrational preferences within post-soviet space, integrational attraction out of this space and intensity of county's public opinion orientation on it's autonomy (based on the rate of refusals to name attractive countries).

 Everyone interested is invited!

Working language is  Russian

Videoconference with Saint Petersburg office of the LCSR (room 204, 16, Soyuza Pechatnikov) will be provided. Also after the seminar a videotape will be put up after the summary of the presentation.

Students, professors and employees of HSE have to take their passes with them. All the guests are asked to send e-mail to m.marinanikitina@gmail.com (in Moscow) or o.o.basmanova@gmail.com (in Saint Petersburg) before noon in the day of the event.