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Prof. Dr. Alexander Libman (FUB) was invited by Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz to present his research at the IERP Economic Colloquium on May 11, 2021. Alexander discussed his paper (co-authored with Olga Vasilyeva) that looks at the legacies of Soviet giant infrastructural projects, which played an…

Michael Rochlitz and Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa) were guests on the EuropaPunktBremen podcast hosted by Horst Seele-Liebetanz. The podcast was recorded to mark the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. The guests, who recently visited the cite of the accident as…

On April 22, 2021, Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz took part in an online panel discussion „From socialist planned economy to a free market“. The round table was organized by Deutsche Historische Institut Moskau together with ZOiS, Körber-Stiftung, German Association for East European Studies (DGO),…

A piece by Michael Rochlitz on “The Economic Consequences of Autocracy” has come out in the new issue of the Russian Analytical Digest. In his commentary Michael shows that a steady downturn in economic growth in Russia in the last decade was caused not so much by the fall in oil prices and…

Thanks to a grant of the State and University Library Bremen, two papers by Michael Rochlitz are now out in open access. The Post-Soviet Affairs article "Property rights in Russia after 2009: from business capture to centralized corruption" (with Anton Kazun and Andrei Yakovlev) is available for…

Michael Rochlitz was invited to participate in the International conference on Federalism, State and Society that was organized by the the Islamia University of Bahawalpur in Pakistan on March 25, 2021. Michael presented his joint book with Prof. Dr. Alexander Libman (FU Berlin) "Federalism in China…

On March 20, 2021, Michael Rochlitz gave a four-hour guest lecture at the University of Zurich on the subject of “Russia's Economic Transformation”, for the module “World Perspectives: Russia” of the master program “Applied History”.

The guest lecture took place online at the invitation of Prof.…

On March 11th, 2021, Heinrich Böll Foundation Bremen together with the Young DGO Regional Group Bremen (which is co-run by Olga Masyutina from AG Rochlitz) organized an online event about the future of civilian use of atomic energy in Europe.

This spring marks the 10th and 35th anniversary of the…

Michael Rochlitz and Ekaterina Paustyan gave an interview to the HSE Look, the official English-language newspaper of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. At the start of his academic career, Michael spent a year as a postdoc fellow at HSE's International Center for the Study of Institutions…

On March 10th, 2021 the official opening of the EU-funded ITN project "MARKETS" took place. At the University of Bremen, the project is coordinated by Michael Rochlitz (FB 7) and Heiko Pleines (Research Centre for East European Studies), with a budget of 505,576 euros over three years.

The…