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IUPsyS Assembly 2018 was held on 30 June 2018 as a part of the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018) held in Montreal, Canada. 90 representatives from different countries attended the Assembly. Besides usual reports on IUPsyS activities related to psychology promotions on various levels including UN and WHO, the issue of psychologist’ consolidated efforts were discussed, and considered professionals in science and practice around the World. Five working groups were formed trying to address this issue from various angles. The results of this exercise will be transformed into action plan to be implemented by IUPsyS within the next two years. In particular, Russian Psychological Society received invitation from recently established Asia Pacific Psychology Alliance to become an affiliated member.

International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018), which was held in Montreal, Canada on 25-30 June 2018, welcomed psychologists from many countries. More than 4000 people attended the Congress. An idea to unite BRICS countries’ psychologists was developed at the beginning of the Congress. Representatives from the five countries organized a meeting to discuss effective collaboration among respective psychological societies.

Guest Editor: Csaba Pleh

Csaba Pleh is Distingusihed Visiting Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science , Central European University, Budapest. He is a Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Academia Europaea. He was the Editor in Chief of Hungarian Review of Psychology (1997-2015) and the President of the Hungarian Philosophical Association (1998-2001). He has been a fellow to Collegium Budapest, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and Collegium de Lyon. In 1991-1992 and in 2004-2005, he was the György Ránki Hungarian Chair at Indiana University. His long-term research interests include history of cognitive science, psycholinguistics, the relationship between language and cognition, and linguistic developmental disorders.

Co-Editor: Boris B. Velichkovsky

Boris B. Velichkovsky is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University. He graduated from Berlin Free University (1998) with Master Degree in Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. At focus of his research interests are experimental studies of language, working memory, cognitive control, and bilingualism.

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International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP2018) was held 25-30 June 2018 in Montreal, Canada. The team of European Congress of Psychology (ECP2019), which will be held 2-5 July 2019 in Moscow, Russia, took this chance to promote the event to reach out to broader audience. 

We are glad to inform you that the new issue of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" - 11(2), 2018 - was released. You can access the full-text articles here: http://psychologyinrussia.com/volumes/11_2_2018.php

On May 17 MoU between the Russian Psychological Society and the Pan African Psychology Union, and MoU between the Russian Psychological Society and the Indonesian Psychological Society were signed.

On May 18 the special symposium "Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Theory in the Context of Modern Preschool Education" took place during the VII International Conference "Early Childhood Care and Education" . The main topics of the discussion were connected to the scientific and cultural heritage of the outstanding professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Lev Vygotsky, whose ideas were profoundly considered and extended in the book recently  published by Routledge (Vygotsky’s Theory in Early Childhood Education and Research/ ed. Nikolay Veraksa, Sonja Sheridan).

May 17, 2018 the VII International Conference "Early Childhood Care and Education" (ECCE 2018) Opening ceremony was held at Lomonosov Moscow State University. ECCE is the largest Russian event dedicated to early childhood psychology, nurturing, content and organization of pre-school education.

We are glad to inform you that the new issue of the journal "Psychology in Russia: State of the Art" - 11(1), 2018 - was released. You can access the full-text articles here: http://psychologyinrussia.com/volumes/11_1_2018.php

For the first time Russian Psychological Society attended ARUPS 2018 congress in Kuta, Indonesia.