Library

The library is open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 10 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm.
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The library is open for MSSES students, teachers, staff members, and alumni. The library collection compiles the best books on social sciences as well as humanities in general – both in English and Russian. The collection is regularly updated: faculty deans and programme managers select the books for the library based on the teachers’ and students’ requests as well as current trends. Also, the library is subscribed to a number of printed and electronic periodicals.

Library Guide

New Acquisitions

Library Wishlist

Annual Activity Report for 2020
Annual Activity Report for 2019

The library is a cosy space suitable for both intensive individual studies and live interaction with peers. It is equipped with everything one might need for work: computers, printers, Wi-Fi, comfortable and movable tables and chairs, and, naturally, a multitude of sockets.

The front desk separates the study hall from the recreational area, where you can take your meals, talk on the phone, or chat with your friends. The library staff is always willing to help, answer your questions, and hear your suggestions.

Our mission is to create and preserve a comfortable working environment, to act as a navigator in the information flow, and to maintain academic processes by, inter alia, initiating discussions on issues of concern to contemporary academics.

Three pillars of our philosophy:

Invisible librarian
MSSES students, staff members, teachers, and alumni can use library books and journals freely without intermediaries or any bureaucratic procedures. You can find any book in the library on your own, without any help from our librarians.
Significance of the community
The MSSES library is a space for like-minded people, paving their own ways in the world of academic research. We strive to maintain a comfortable working environment for our readers and therefore reserve the right to regulate visits to the library undertaken by students from other institutions.
Value of feedback
The library exists thanks to our readers and for them. We are here for you and we are always willing to hear your questions, requests, and recommendations: biblioteka@universitas.ru.

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Article 13 of Federal Law No. 114-FZ, dated 25.07.2002, “On Combating Extremist Activity”, paragraph 7 of the Regulation on the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No.1313, dated 13.10.2004, the Ministry of Justice of Russia is charged with the responsibility to maintain, publish, and upload the Federal List of Extremist Materials to the Internet. Information materials are recognised as extremist by the Federal Court at the place of their discovery, distribution, or location of the organisation that produced such materials upon the prosecutor’s presentation or in the course of proceedings on the relevant case of an administrative offense, civil or criminal case. The Federal List of Extremist Materials is formed based on copies of court decisions, received by the Ministry of Justice, that have entered into force, recognising information materials as extremist. Names and individualising features of information materials are included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials in strict accordance with the operative part of the court decision. Appeals against court decisions recognising information materials as extremist are carried out in the manner specified by the law of the Russian Federation. The law of the Russian Federation establishes responsibility for the mass distribution of extremist materials included in the published Federal List of Extremist Materials as well as their production or possession for the purpose of mass distribution. Federal List of Extremist MaterialsФедеральный список экстремистских материалов