Evgeny Yasin joins the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights

On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a directive appointing HSE Academic Supervisor Evgeny Yasin to the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. His candidacy was proposed by Council head Mikhail Fedotov.

A number of HSE academics and teachers are involved in the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights - Professor Iosif Diskin from the Faculty of Business and Management’s Department of Innovation and Business in Information Technologies, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs Sergey Karaganov, Professor and Department Head at the Faculty of Law, Department of Judicial Power and Justice Administration Tamara Morshchakova, Professor at the Department of Judicial Power Sergey Pashin, Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences Leonid Polyakov, Associate Professor at the Department of Theory of Law and Comparative Law Anita Soboleva, Deputy Department Head at the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law Ilya Shablinskiy, and Professor Igor Yurgens from the Department of Theory and Practice of Business and Government Interaction.

Evgeny Yasin is responsible for issues of civic engagement in economic modernization.