The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 148th meeting of the Dispute Club “Economic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic "How the economy of Russian cities going through the crisis". The purpose of the event was to discuss a number of issues related to the impact of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of  Russian cities. The debaters were  Leonid Eduardovich Limonov, Director-Coordinator  of  Research  Programs  of  ICSER  “Leontief  Center”,  and  Irina  Dmitrievna Turgel, Deputy Director for Science and Innovation of the School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also summarizes the main results of their answers to questions.

The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for medical education, particularly for the acquisition of clinical skills. At Kazan State Medical University (KSMU), we used an online simulation platform called CyberPatient TM (CP) to provide a clinical environment in a virtual space with a variety of patients for students to practice their clinical skills. In this study, we surveyed 59 students who used CP in the 2020 spring semester. This survey's objectives were to gather the students' opinion on usability, value, efficacy and impact of the CP platform. Survey results revealed that CP is used significantly (P < 0.0001) more when it is an integral part of the curriculum, it was not difficult to operate the system (96.6%); the students were satisfied with the number, quality and variety of the cases in CP platform (93.3%); over 90% of students identified CP valuable; a significant number of students (p < 0.001) believed that CP was effective and 89.9% of students believed that CP had a measurably high impact on their knowledge and experience. This study concludes that the use of virtual clinical environments such as CP is perceived by students to be valuable and effective in learning clinical skills particularly during this pandemic and in the post-pandemic period when the access of students to clinical environments remains limited.

The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 147rd meeting of the Dispute Club “Eco- nomic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic " Problems and Prospects for the Development of the Eurasian Economic Un- ion". The purpose of the event was to discuss a number of issues related to the creation of the EAEU, integration processes within the union, as well as barriers to its development. The debaters were Igor V. Pilipenko, Director of the Institute for Competitiveness and Integration, and Evgeny Y. Vinokurov, Chief Economist of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also summarizes the main results of their answers to questions.

The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 145rd meeting of the Dispute Club “Eco- nomic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic "Oil market – when is it up again?". The purpose of the event was to discuss the situation in the oil and oil products market, as well as the prospects for the development of this mar- ket. The disputants were Mikhail Krutikhin, partner of the RusEnergy consulting agency, and Alex- ander Kurdin, Deputy Dean for Science of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University and head of research in the Department for Energy and Utilities of the Analytical Center for the Govern- ment of the Russian Federation. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also sum- marizes the main results of their answers to questions.