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The Foundation is launching new, large-scale project researching new media in Russia, using software from the Crimson Hexagon system – an analytics platform which automatically scans and sorts online content. The research will focus on a study of current social and political issues. This would essentially be an alternative in Russia to both "Medialogia" and the once popular – but now defunct - "Yandex Top blogs". The Fund contends that under the Crimson Hexagon scope is to be not just opposition, but authorities as well.

The Foundation developed an "Atlas of political consultants", described by the organization as a reference guide listing political consultants who had participated in election campaigns in Russia during the previous ten years. According to the Foundation, the project was intended to distinguish experienced political consultants ahead of the Single Voting Day on 8 September.

August 2013, the FDCS released first issue of a Rating of social well-being in the regions The research is based on data from the “Public Opinion” Foundation (FOM) and shows that Russian regions can be rated according to the peoples’ satisfaction levels with their current living situations - taking into account their attitude towards the authorities and protest potential. A person's sense of social security does not directly depend on the economic situations and living standards of that particular region. FDCS plans to monitor the dynamics of social well-being and to identify key parameters that affect its change.

The head of FOM, Aleksander Oslon, said that he was satisfied with the interpretation by the "geo-rating" method which has been in use for almost a decade and which is used primarily by the Presidential Administration. He is quoted as saying that "The Foundation for Civil Society Development utilises a clear and simple methodology: percentages are converted into points and summarised”.

The Foundation designed a social science teachers conference as a long-term project. The main task ahead according to Mr. Kostin was to create a platform for meaningful and interesting discussion on political agendas and also the exchange of ideas between specialists, politicians and civil servants. Welcoming the very fest Conference Kostin expressed his confidence that the conference would help identify the most promising ways forward for further study and research and would lead to a series of lectures on modern day regional and federal politics with a view to creating teaching and learning aids for the younger generation. The conference involved lectures and discussions on the following topics: the latest teaching methods of social sciences; modern political sociology; the interaction between state and civil society; the development of Russia's political system.