Levada Center - Organisation

Organisation

The Levada-Center has partner relationships with various regional research centers in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic states. Their partners and customers are non-profit Russian and international companies. The Center publishes the sociological journal The Russian Public Opinion Herald.

The Levada-Center is a member of the international associations ESOMAR and ОIRОМ. Experts of the Levada-Center are constant members in conferences and round table discussions such as the Liberal Mission Foundation (Фонд «Либеральная миссия»), the Carnegie Moscow Center, The Gorbachev Foundation, Memorial, Public Lectures of Polit.ru Project (Публичные лекции Полит.ру), the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Московская высшая школа социальных и экономических наук), the Public Center of A.D. Sakharov (Общественный центр им. А. Д. Сахарова) and Khodorkovsky Readings (Ходорковские чтения).

Articles, interviews and expert opinions published by the Levada-Center appear regularly in domestic and foreign mass-media such as Kommersant, Vedomosti, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, etc. Other publications in scientific and socially political press within Russia include Pro et Contra, Otechestvenie zapiski (Отечественные записки), Social Studies and the Present (Общественные науки и современность), The New Times, Ogoniok and Novaya Gazeta.

The Center continues to carry out research programs, they have developed in the framework of VTsIOM. Publishes a journal "Journal of Public Opinion" (from 1993 to 2003, the editorial staff of The Messenger has created and published the magazine "Monitoring of public opinion: the economic and social change"- the name of one of the major research programs, developed under the supervision of Academician Tatyana Zaslavskaya

The Levada-Center is included in the list of independent analytical centers of Europe, published by Freedom House. Data published by the Levada-Center has been used for The Economist Special Report on Russia. In collaboration with the Levada-Center, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty weekly broadcasts the show Public Opinion (Общественное мнение: граждане России у микрофона Радио Свобода).

In 1988, the research team of now Levada-Center conducted the first study of consumer preferences in the USSR. At present, the Center does a wide range of marketing and sociological research using different research techniques.