Program

15th CSWR International Workshop
“Recent Advances in Comparative Study of Values”

6-8 April 2026 Moscow Time Zone (GMT+3)
Moscow, Myasnitskaya st. 11, and online

Supervisors: Andrey Shcherbak (CSWR HSE), Ekaterina Nastina (CSWR HSE), Anna Almakaeva (CSWR HSE)

April 6th, Monday

 14:00 - 15:45 / Honorary paper by Anna Andreenkova (СESSI)  

"Life course and life values: autobiographic approach and potential of AI)"

Chair: Anna Almakaeva (CSWR HSE)

16:15 - 18:00 / Values in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Chair: Anna Almakaeva (CSWR HSE)

Boris Sokolov (CSWR HSE), Viyaleta Korsunava (CSWR HSE), Anna Nemirovskaya (HSE Saint Petersburg)
"Sociocultural Modernization and Environmental Attitudes: Recent Evidence from the European Values Study and the World Values Survey"

Andrey Shcherbak (CSWR HSE)
"The Relationship between Intelligence and Values: Evidence from WVS"

Arkatov Dmitrii (CSWR HSE), Meylakhs Peter (CSWR HSE), Ponarin Eduard (CSWR HSE)
"The Value Factor in the European Defense Policy"

April 7th, Tuesday

offline Myasnitskaya st. 11, room 428, and online

12:00 - 13:45 / Geopolitics of scientific recognition: the role of international connections in citation and collaboration

Chair: Nikita Zubarev (CSWR HSE)

Yulia Moreva (CSWR HSE)
"A friend in need is a friend indeed: dynamics of scientific collaborations in the context of increasing international tension"

Alexandr Vilkhovenko (European University at Saint Petersburg)
"Between the Local and the Global: Collaboration, Research Topics, and Citation Patterns in Russian Political Science"

Maxim Dmitriev (European University at Saint Petersburg)
"Geopolitical context of scientific recognition: the role of “friendly” and “unfriendly” countries in citing Russian articles"*

*This research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 25-28-01490, https://rscf.ru/project/25-28-01490/ 

15:00 - 16:45 / Values in Russia

Chair: Yulia Moreva (CSWR HSE)

Anna Almakaeva, Ilya Danilenko (CSWR HSE)
"Education without Trust? Empirical Evidence Russian regional data"

Yaroslav Snarski (CSWR HSE)
"Lasting Legacies of Democratic Governance: Evidence from State-Sponsored Civic Engagement in Russia"

Kira Legut (CSWR HSE)
"Online Chat as an Adaptation Tool: A Comparative Analysis of Messages in Telegram Chats of Russian Emigrants in Georgia and Germany"

17:05 - 18:50 / Cultural orientations and methodology

Chair: Dmitry Arkatov (CSWR HSE) 

Viyaleta Korsunava (CSWR HSE)
"Basic human values in Russia and Europe: comparison of online and F2F surveys" 

Nikita Zubarev (CSWR HSE)
"Age-period-cohort effects on response styles: Evidence from European Social Survey" 

Aslanbek Doguzov (CSWR HSE)
"The mismatch between gender attitudes and gender roles as a factor of subjective well-being: comparative analysis"

April 8th, Wednesday

offline Myasnitskaya st. 11, room 428, and online

12:00 - 13:45 / Honorary paper by Minkov Michael (Varna University of Management, Bulgaria; CSWR HSE)

"Schwartz's Refined Values Model: A 20-Nation Study" 

Chair: Andrey Shcherbak (CSWR HSE)

15:00 - 16:45 / Value Change in Russia

Chair: Andrey Shcherbak (CSWR HSE) 

Olesia Gritsko (HSE), Ekaterina Nastina (CSWR HSE)
"Gender Attitudes and Subjective well-being in Russia: The Asymmetric Effect of Person-Culture Fit" 

Artur Musaev (CSWR HSE)
"Secular studies in Russia: the case of Russian ex-Muslims" 

Marharyta Fabrykant (BSU, Belarus; HSE)
"Internet Use and Emotional Life in 30 European Countries"

17:05 - 18:50 / Value Change and Public Health

Chair: Boris Sokolov (CSWR HSE)

Yulia Afanasyeva (independent researcher), Boris Sokolov (CSWR HSE)
"Basic Human Values Predict COVID-19-skepticism, COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs, and Vaccine Hesitancy: Cross-National Evidence from the Values in Crisis Survey"

Dmitry Kislitsyn (CSWR HSE)
"Mental Health in the Era of "Salts": Distress Levels Among Alpha-PVP and Mephedrone Users"

Vadim Ustyuzhanin (HSE)
"How does the culture of extended families affect birth rates? Instrumental variables approach"