February 17th, 2025. Professor Kumo gave a lecture etitled "Urban Systems And Population Reallocation in Russia, 1897-1989" at "Совместное заседание Отдела социально-экономической географии, Лаборатории геополитических исследований и Лаборатории географии мирового развития" at Институт Географии РАН, Москва (Россия). http://www.igras.ru/4044

Publications were updated:

●　Yu, W., Kumo, K., Lee, H., Impact of Digitalization on Corporate Financial Profitability: The Case of Russia, forthcoming in "Post-Communist Economies".

Publications were updated:

●　Kumo, K. and Pergini, C., Religion, Gender Norms and Fertility in Muslim Post-Communist Economies, forthcoming in "Post-Communist Economies".

November 22nd, 2024. Professor Kumo gave a lecture etitled "Уникальность бывшего социалистического блока с точки зрения гендерных норм: Подход на основе микроданных на примере России" at the Congress "Россия и Япония на пути устойчивого развития" (Осака, Токио, Петербург) at Saint-Petersburg University of Economics and Finance (Russia).
https://unecon.ru/v-spbgeu-proshla-konferencziya-rossiya-i-yaponiya-na-puti-ustojchivogo-razvitiya/

November 18th, 2024. Professor Kumo gave a lecture entitled "Siberian Curse Revisited: Had Communist Planners Left the Soviet Union out in the Cold?" at Moscow School of Economics (Moscow University, Russia).
https://mse.msu.ru/event/professor-kazuhiro-kumo-japonija-siberian-curse-revisited-had-communist-planners-left-the-soviet-union-out-in-the-cold/

Publications were updated:

●　Литвиненко, Т., Кумо, К. нутренне различия в динамке населения Республики Саха (Якутии) влияющие на нее факторы, forthcoming in "Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Науки о земле".

●　Kumo, K. and Shadrina, E., Soviet Population Redistribution: Re-assessing the Myth of Siberian Curse, forthcoming in "Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia".