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Alexei Repik, who received his bachelor’s degree from HSE’s Faculty of Economics, was named the winner of the Russia nomination in the international competition Entrepreneur of the Year 2014. Repik is the President of Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) and the Chairman of the board of directors at the R-Pharm group.

On November 18 the HSE Alumni Awards ceremony took place in Izvestia Hall.

'Success Builder' is a section about what happens with HSE alumni after graduate — how they build their careers, how they gain recognition in their field, how they handle failure. The first article is about Dmitry Levitsky, who graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Higher School of Economics in 1999. He is the co-owner and manager of several chains of bars called ‘Honey, I'll call you back’ and ‘Dolls Pistols’, as well as the co-owner and CEO of Hurma Management Group.

HSE Family is a new social networking website in Russian and English for graduates, students and teachers on all HSE campuses.

Lana Zakharova, ICEF 2013 graduate shared her impressions of studying for a Master’s at the Bendheim Centre for Finance, University of Princeton.

ICEF BSc graduate 2007 Eyno Rots defended his PhD thesis in Economics at the Boston University (USA).Topic: 'Essays on Unsecured Credit, Uncertainty, and Learning'.

HSE Perm hosted a charity Bake Sale, organized by the HSE Perm discussion club, to collect funds for the city's animal homes.

On September 11, the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) held its graduation ceremony for the class of 2014 at the residence of the British Ambassador to Russia. Since ICEF was created 17 years ago and began carrying out joint programmes with the University of London International Programmes, the number of graduates has reached a thousand.

Dear students and colleagues, we are asking you to help a fellow member of the HSE family. Ksenia Kapranova, a graduate of HSE Nizhny Novgorod’s Faculty of Law, has recently been diagnosed with diffuse astrocytoma of the left parietal and temporal lobes and is in need of an urgent and expensive operation that can only be done in the U.S. or Germany.

A team of students and alumni from the Higher School of Economics took part in the bicycle parade #WowMoscow on Moscow City Day. The cyclists rode 26 kilometers along Moscow’s streets and embankments, going all the way from the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument at VDNKh to Krasnaya Presnya Park.