Moscow State University (Russia)

The Center for Sociological Studies at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (CSS MGU) is part of the University’s research institutes. The CSS has been founded in 1993 as the result of merging of the Research Laboratory for Problems of Education and the Centre for the Studies of Public Opinion. Both Institutes had the reputation of high quality research centres with а broad experience in designing and conducting surveys and analysing the results. CSS conducts sociological research on various issues: mass consciousness, interethnic relations, analysis of the pre-election situations, social and professional issues, etc. CSS uses wide range of data gathering methods on the basis of all-Russia’s or regional probability samples. CSS conducts surveys in collaboration with its regional network of 73 regions of Russia. CSS has taken part in numerous research projects in cooperation with European and American and researchers. Among partner universities are: Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Utrecht, Villanova, Duke, Johns Hopkins University, Iowa State University, University of Arizona, etc. CSS won many grants from the Russian and foreign foundations, including Russian Humanities Scientific Foundation, National Training Foundation, European Scientific Foundation, National Science Foundation (USA), INTAS, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation. The Centre conducted studies under the contract with the MacArthur Foundation. European Commission, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and others.

The team includes Prof. Sergei Tumanov (Team Leader), Dr. Alexander Gasparishvili, Viatcheslav Ryazantsev, Alla Stremovskaya

Prof. Sergei Tumanov, Director of the Center for Sociological Studies at the Moscow State University. He has long-term research and teaching experience in development of democracy in Russia, public opinion, mass consciousness, ethnic relations in Russia, and research methods in sociology. Prof. Tumanov was leader of numerous nation-wide research projects. Among those, Pre-Election surveys (1988-2000), Drug Addiction in the Russian Federation (1992), Russian Youth (1997), Archetypes of Social and Natural Being of Russia (2002-2003), etc. He also participated as a co-director of several large-scale international research projects, Titulars as Minorities: Post-communist Ethnic Relations in Five (Semi-) Autonomous Regions of the Russian Federation (1999, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), Charismatic Leadership in Post-Soviet Countries (1999-2001, INTAS), Living Conditions, Lifestyles and Health, Project funded by the European Community under the FP5 horizontal programme “Confirming the International role of Community Research” (INCO2 - Copernicus, 2000-2003.) Prof. Tumanov is member of editorial board of the “The Moscow State University Bulletin”, and of “The Regional Studies” journals. He is a Vice-President of the Russian Guild of Public Opinion Pollsters and Marketers. Prof. Tumanov is the author of 5 books and 50 articles on sociological, economic and management issues

Prof. Sergei Tumanov

Dr. Alexander Gasparishvili
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Viatcheslav Ryazantsev

Alla Stremovskaya