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Lennart Samuelson has recently given interviews on his monograph "Tankograd: The Formation of a Soviet Company Town" (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).

Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich, CEFIR.

Denys Nizalov and Olena Nizalova, KEI.

A summary of the SITE 5th Energy Day is now available under Russia & Eastern Europe.

On December 15-16, SITE participated in the conference "What Economic Governance for Arab Transition?" with the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) in Barcelona.

Lennart Samuelson appeared in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet with an essay on the fight against historical abuse in Russia.

The English translation of Lennart Samuleson's book "Tankograd" (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) has been review by professor Richard Overy for Literary Review.

On September 5, we launch the FREE Policy Brief Series, a joint initiative by SITE and our six sister institutes. The aim is to provide short and informative analyses on current economic policy challenges in Eastern Europe and emerging economies.

Tatyana Chesnokova and Dmitriy Kvasov, the University of Adelaide, Australia will visit SITE from 24 August to the end of December 2011.

Lennart Samuelson’s monograph "Tankograd. The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk 1900s –1950s" has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Samuelson has published two articles on contemporary Russian historians and their debates on how to come to terms with Russia's dramatic 20th century history.

We are happy to welcome four new researchers to SITE: Ina Ganguli from Harvard University, Elena Paltseva from Copenhagen University, Maria Perrotta from the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, and Jenny Simon from MIT.

On May 30, SITE arranged the first of what is to become an annual Development Day on the topic "Challenges for Aid Effectiveness". A summary of the event and the presentations of the invited speakers are now available for download.

Ingmar Nyman, Hunter College, the City University of New York, will vist SITE from June 27 to mid-August.

SITE and Södertörn Högskola in cooperation with the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies and CBEES will hold a conference on privatization and liberalization on June 16-17, 2011. The focus will be on network industries and Eastern Europe.