In 2021 the Higher School of Economics in Moscow celebrated the 10^th anniversary of its international research labs. Our main institutional partner the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) was one of the first labs created at the HSE to do high-quality research and become a hub for a wide community of scholars studying the political economy of Russia. On December 24^th, 2021, Olga Masyutina and Michael Rochlitz, who worked at the ICSID for several years and are still closely connected to the Center, were given a thank-you letter from the HSE vice-rector Maria Yudkevich for their long-term cooperation with the HSE.