The Ambassador of Embassy of Canada in Moscow mister Ralf Lisishin congratulated the Consortium in the person of its President E.Ershova and S. Aivazova, that the book «Russian elections: gender profile» (S. Aivazova, Moscow-2008) won the first place at competition of scientific works of the Russian Association Political Sciences for 2008-2009г.г. Also the mister the Ambassador wished good luck to this work at the International competition Johann Skytte Prize and expressed admiration of Consortium’s work on protection of the rights of women.