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Experts from the Centre for Regional Programmes took part in the Information Society 2012: Achievements and Prospects forum, held on 4-5 October in Chelyabinsk.
The event was organised by the Ministry for Information Technology and Communication of the Chelyabinsk Region, to create an effective platform to exchange experience in implementation of federal and regional IT projects, collaboration of public structures and IT companies, to distribute the most successful practices in information society development, including the transfer of public and municipal services to electronic form.

Head of the civil service directorate of the Institute of Public and Municipal Management of NRU HSE Alexei Konov, a most welcome guest at the studio of Radio Russia, speaks about the declaration of income and expenses by civil servants.
Aleksei KONOV: There have been two substantial attempts to move civil servants to declare their expenses and income. The first was the reform of 1997-98, when two presidential decrees came into force on the procedure for submitting information on income, property and property-based obligations, plus a decree on the verification of this information. The second was the decrees, adopted in 2008-09; there were several decrees on the procedure for providing information and two decrees on verification. And now the third attempt is unfolding before our very eyes - additional reform, or post-reform. This attempt to adopt a law on control over expenses could at last, perhaps, balance the expenses and the income of civil servants, although in itself this is not very likely.

Konstantin Golovshchinsky, Director of the Regional Programmes Centre for enhancing the effectiveness of public and municipal management, IPAMM NRU HSE, remarked in an interview with Interfax-Russia that many municipalities do not have the resources to create MFCs, but they are still to be responsible for them, albeit with the help of the regions.

As part of the research conducted by NRU HSE into the economic and organisational aspects of space activities, a meeting was held in Star City between Vice Rector Andrei KLIMENKO and a group of experts with the head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Russian Federation, cosmonaut Sergey KRIKALEV and his deputies.

On 13 September the Higher School of Economics presented the report On development of an anti-corruption declaration system in Russia, prepared using research conducted at the HSE Institute of Public and Municipal Management.
Discussion of the report involved representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Government Office, key ministries and departments, the Accounts Chamber, the relevant committees of the State Duma and Federation Council, and expert and business communities.

The Moscow Mayor's Office recently tabled the discussion of the capital's future under the document title Moscow Development Strategy until 2025. KP's questions were answered by the document's authors: Director of the Higher School of Economics Institute for Public and Municipal Management Andrei KLIMENKO and dean of the public management faculty of the Russian Government Academy of National Economy Sergey ZUEV.

A consortium headed by NRU HSE has started work on the development of a systematic project for implementing the Information City (2012-2016) government programme for Moscow and on performing the function of the Programme's Directorate. The customer for this work is the Department for Information Technologies of the City of Moscow. From NRU HSE, the project is headed by the Centre for Government Activity Analysis of the Institute for Public and Municipal Management.