Authors
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C. Erdost Akin PhD Candidate in International Relations at Central European University. He specializes on body politics and political violence.
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Nurlan Aliyev Senior Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin
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Maxim Alyukov Postdoctoral fellow at King’s Russia Institute at King’s College London, a researcher with an independent research group Public Sociology Laboratory, and an affiliate of the International…
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Anna Andreeva Journalist-analyst in the field of digital technologies
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Stanislav Andreychuk Council member, Movement for Defence of Voters’ Rights “Golos”
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Gregory Asmolov Lecturer in Digital Entrepreneurship at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
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Vasily Astrov Senior economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)
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Karena Avedissian Senior Analyst, Regional Center for Democracy and Security.
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Alexandra Baeva Analyst
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Anton Barbashin Editorial director at Riddle, political analyst
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Vsevolod Bederson Researcher of the Chronicles project, PhD
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Sergey Belanovsky Sociologist, Ph.D. in economics
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Lucy Birge Russia analyst
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Magnus Blechingberg Rixen Research Assistant, Royal Danish Defence College
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Gleb Bogush Research fellow at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law, University of Cologne; visiting professor at the University of Luxembourg
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Ekaterina Borovikova Independent researcher
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Fabian Burkhardt Senior Researcher at the Department of Politics, Leibniz Institute for East European Studies (IOS), Regensburg. Editor, Russian Analytical Digest. 2018−2024 — Editorial Board,…
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Irina Busygina Political scientist
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Denis Cenusa Political analyst, associated expert at Eastern Europe Studies Centre (Lithuania) and Expert-Grup (Moldova)
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Harold Chambers Analyst on conflict, nationalism, and security in the North Caucasus
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Roman Chernikov Political scientist
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Aleksei Chigadaev Sinologist, Postgraduate researcher, Free University of Berlin
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Georgy Chizhov Head of Research Programs at the Reform Assistance Center (Kyiv), Coordinator of the European Dialogue Expert Group in Ukraine
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John Chrobak Research Program Assistant, Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington…
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Stephen Crowley Professor, Department of Politics, Oberlin College
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Milan Czerny Post-graduate student in Russian & East European studies at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College
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Sergey Davidis Human rights activist and public figure, head of the «Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial» Project
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Ivan Davydov Publicist, chief editor of the ‘New ethics’ project
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Sergey Davydov Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Partner at Social Business Group.
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Sławomir Dębski Director of Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, 2011 — 2016.
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Philipp Dietrich Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, German Council on Foreign Relations
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Aleksandar Djokic Political analyst. Focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
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Jan Matti Dollbaum Postdoctoral researcher at Bremen University. He studies protest, social movements, and their connections to politics in Russia and Eastern Europe
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Maria Domańska Senior fellow at the Warsaw-based Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
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Dmitry Dubrovsky Associate research fellow of the Centre for Independent Social Research. Until July 2017 — associate research scholar at Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
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Jacqueline Dufalla PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations, Central European University
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Allyson Edwards Lecturer in Global history and politics at Bath Spa university, specialising in Russian militarism, use of memory, and patriotic education systems
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Maria Engström Professor of Russian Language, Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University
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Nikolay Epplée Cultural historian, philologist, journalist. His publications have appeared at Vedomosti, InLiberty, Arzamas, Republic, Colta.
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Yakov Feygin Author of Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Economic Reform (Harvard University Press, 2024). He currently works as a consultant in public finance and…
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Mikhail Filippov Professor, Department of Political Science, State University of New York
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Paul Fisher International arbitration lawyer and research student at University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies
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Ivan Fomin Ph.D. in Political Science, is the head of «Ideas for Russia» initiative. He also teaches at the Boris Nemtsov Program in Russian Studies at Charles University in Prague.
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Natalia Forrat Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
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Timothy Frye Marshall D. Shulman Professor, Columbia University; Co-director, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Higher School of Economics
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V. G. Political Scientist, PhD
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Rasmus G. D. Hardt Head of Section, Program Manager, Royal Danish Defence College
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Areg Galstyan PhD, regular contributor to The National Interest, Forbes Russia, The Hill and The American Thinker. Head of American Studies Scientific-Analytical…
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Vasily Gatov Visiting Fellow, Annenberg School of Communications & Journalism, University of Southern California
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Alexey Gilyov Associate Professor, Department of Applied Political Science, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
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Paul Goode Associate Professor, McMillan Chair in Russian Studies, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University
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Dmitry Gorsky Sociologist
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Alexander Graef Researcher in the Project «Arms Control and Emerging Technologies» at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)
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Ala Graff PhD Candidate, Russian history, University of Maryland, College Park
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Denis Grekov Political scientist at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Igor Gretskiy Political scientist, associate professor of the Faculty of International Relations of Saint Petersburg State University
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Gabriella Gricius Senior Research Associate at the Public International Law & Policy Group’s Netherland’s Office
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Tigran Grigoryan Director of the Armenia-based Regional Center for Democracy and Security think tank
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Olga Gulina Director and founder of the Institute on Migration Policy. Member of the EU-Russia Civil Society Advocacy Group.
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Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom Doctoral student at University of Cambridge, visiting researcher at Université libre de Bruxelles
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Harry Halem Harry Halem is Senior Fellow at Yorktown Institute and a doctoral candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics.
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Neil Hauer Analyst working on North and South Caucasus. Formerly senior intelligence analyst at The SecDev Group in Ottawa, Canada.
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Jeff Hawn Researcher, London School of Economics, Department of International History
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Maximilian Hess Head of Political Risk at Hawthorn Advisors and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
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Lærke Holst Research Assistant at the Royal Danish Defence College
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Sebastian Hoppe Research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies’ Department of Politics at Freie Universität Berlin
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Brendan Humphreys Leads a project on population expulsion at Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki
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Galiya Ibragimova Political scientist, expert on Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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Anton Imennov Attorney, sanctions law expert and a Managing Partner of the Moscow Office of Pen & Paper
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Vladislav Inozemtsev Co-founder and Advisory Council Member, Center for Analysis and Strategies in Europe
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Olga Irisova Political analyst. Galina Starovoitova Fellow at Kennan Institute (2019). German chancellor fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021−2022)
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Petr Kamensky Political scientist
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David Kankiya Political scientist, an expert of the Movement for Defence of Voters’ Rights «Golos»
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Yulia Khalikova PhD candidate, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, focusing on judicial politics and law enforcement in Russia
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Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin Professor of Political Studies and the Head of the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program at the BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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Ekaterina Klimenko Candidate of Sciences in Cultural Studies (2010), PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024). Her research…
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Janis Kluge Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin
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Ivan U. Klyszcz Research fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia
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Michael Kofman Director of the Russia Studies Program at the CNA Corporation and a Senior Adjunct Fellow, CNAS
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Karina Korostelina Professor and director of the Peace Lab on Reconciling Conflict and Intergroup Divisions at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George…
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Nikolay Kozhanov Research Associate Professor at the Gulf Studies Center (GSC) of Qatar University. Non-Resident Scholar at the Economics and Energy Program of the Middle East…
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Julia Krivonosova Junior Research Fellow at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
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Kirill Krivosheev Foreign policy correspondence with Kommersant newspaper
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Natasha Kuhrt Lecturer in International Peace & Security, Dept of War Studies, King’s College London
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Volodymyr Kulikov Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
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Maria Kunilovskaya PhD in contrastive linguistics, researcher with the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton (UK)
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Ivan Kurilla Professor of History and International Relations, European University at St. Petersburg
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Ana L. Brown Policy analyst, ALM candidate in International Relations at Harvard University
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Tatyana Lanshina Independent expert in the field of energy
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Marlene Laruelle Associate Director and research professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University
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Ellen Leafstedt MPhil candidate in Russian & East European studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford
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Adam Charles Lenton PhD Candidate in political science at the George Washington University, specializing in ethnic politics and regional development in Russia
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Yuri Lobunov Journalist. Editor-in-chief of the independent news agency “Gorod32”
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Oleg Loginov Economic Journalist
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Olga Logunova Research Associate at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London. Specializes in sociology and media studies with a focus on social media communication, digital culture…
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Joe Luc Barnes Journalist. MA, Russian and East European Politics from the University of Oxford. His book, «Soviet Supernova: Travels in the Former USSR,» comes…
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Pavel Luzin Specialist in international relations, expert on the Russian Armed Forces. Political scientist
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Arbakhan K. Magomedov Visiting Professor, Kansai University
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Jack Margolin An independent expert on PMCs. Author of an upcoming book on Wagner
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Dmitry Markin Political scientist
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Ilya Matveev Political scientist, visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley
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Lauren McCarthy Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Nicholas McCarty Graduate student at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service studying the conventional Russian military.
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Jade McGlynn Research Fellow, The Department of War Studies at King’s College London
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Stefan Meister Head of International Order and Democracy Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
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Asya Metodieva PhD Candidate at Central European University, Budapest. Visiting PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford in 2019.
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Ana Mikadze MA in Data Analytics in Public Policy, Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Senior Program Associate at the International Republican Institute’s Mission to Georgia.
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Ruslan Moldovanov Master of European Studies, Jagiellonian University. Intern at the Center for Global Freedom and Prosperity at the Cato Institute.
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Ekaterina Moroko Journalist, member of Austausch e.V. and civil society platforms CivilM+ projects
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Alexander Morozov Political scientist and research fellow at the Russian Studies Center Boris Nemtsov at Charles University
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Jem Morrow Political scientist
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Konrad Muzyka Independent Defence Analyst | Director, Rochan Consulting
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Mikhail Nemtsev Philosopher, historian, and writer. Ph.D. in Philosophy, MA in Gender and Women studies
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Platon Nikiforov Political analyst specializing in the Middle East
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Anastasia Nikolskaya Psychologist, Ph.D. in psychology. Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology, Kosygin State University of Russia
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Ben Noble Associate Professor of Russian Politics, University College London; and Associate Fellow, Chatham House
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Theo Normanton Moscow Correspondent for bne IntelliNews
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Dmitry Oparin Senior Lecturer in the History Faculty, Department of Ethnology, Moscow State University; Research Fellow, Institute of Social Policy, HSE
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Kevork Oskanian Lecturer in the International Relations of Eurasia, University of Exeter
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Judith Pallot Head of the GULAGECHOES project, European Research Council, University of Helsinki
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Vakhtang Partsvania Economist, Professor of Management at Caucasus University
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Andrey Pertsev Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
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Nicholas Pierce Master’s student at The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Lincoln Pigman Research Fellow at The Foreign Policy Centre (UK), postgraduate student at the University of Oxford
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Ksenia Poluektova-Krimer Jewish studies and Holocaust historian and translator. She is currently an Andrei Sakharov visiting research fellow at Center for Contemporary History (ZZF-Potsdam)
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Elizaveta Popkova MA in Political Science, European University at St. Petersburg
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Ivan Preobrazhensky Political analyst. «Moscow political club» coordinator, european observer for the independent news agency «Rosbalt» and Deutsche Welle columnist.
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Denis Primakov Compliance Specialist, Associate Professor of Russian Foreign Trade Academy
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Evgeny Pudovkin Journalist and a staff writer at RBC
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Sergey Radchenko Director of Research, School of Law & Politics, Cardiff University
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Mimi Reitz Freelance writer specialising in Eurasia
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Bradley Reynolds Research Fellow, The Baltic Sea Region and the Post-Cold War Hysteresis, BALTRANS
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Michael Richter Researcher, Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen in the context of the EU-funded ITN «Markets».
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Mykhailo Romanov Kharkiv University and Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki
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Ella Rossman Junior researcher at the University of Tyumen and the editor of Russian online-magazine about education “Mel”
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Vladimir Rouvinski Professor, Laboratory of Politics and International Relations (PoInt), Political Science Program at Icesi University (Columbia)
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Lilia S Political scientist
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Maxim S Independent researcher
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N S Political Scientist
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Evan Samsky Dual Master’s student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Felix Sandalov Editor-in-chief of Individuum publishing house. German chancellor fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021−2023)
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Andrey Semenov Senior Researcher, Center for Comparative History and Politics
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Natia Seskuria Associate Fellow at RUSI
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Ilya Shablinsky Professor at the Higher School of Economics (2004−2022), member of the Russian Helsinki Group
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Maria Shagina Visiting senior fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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Kirill Shanghaisky Political Scientist
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Gulnaz Sharafutdinova Professor, Russia Institute, King’s College London
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Denis Shedov Lawyer and analyst
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Anton Shekhovtsov External Lecturer in Political Science, University of Vienna and General Editor of the ‘Explorations of the Far Right’, ibidem-Verlag
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James Sherr Senior Fellow of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House
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Rajoli Siddharth Junior Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation
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Mykhaylo Simanovskyy Dual Master’s student at the University of Texas, a Graduate Researcher at the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL), and a Brumley Fellow at the Strauss Center for…
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Maria Simeonova Head of Sofia office at the European Council on Foreign Relations
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Nikita Smagin Expert on Iran, Islamism and Russia’s foreign policy in the Middle East, author of the book «Iran for Everyone: Paradoxes of Life in an Autocracy under…
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Natalia Smirnova Analyst
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Ksenia Smolyakova Political Scientist, expert of the «Election Atlas» project
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Nikita Sokolov Historian. Deputy Executive Director of The Yeltsin Foundation on scientific work. Chairman of the board of the Free Historical Society.
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Alesya Sokolova Senior researcher, the head of propaganda studies, expert on social media data at Сedar and data journalist at Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Tatiana Stanovaya Founder / CEO at R.Politik. Former chief of the Centre for Political Technologies analysis department
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Maxim Starchak Fellow of the Center for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University (Canada), expert on Russian nuclear policy and nuclear industry
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Dan Storyev Journalist. Managing Reporter at OVD-Info
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Dmitri Stratievski Political scientist and historian (FU Berlin), and director of the Berlin Center for East European Studies (Osteuropa-Zentrum Berlin e.V.).
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Sergey Sukhankin Lecturer in the University of Alberta, MacEwan University and Concordia University of Edmonton
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Isabella Tabarovsky Researcher, manager for regional engagement at the Kennan Institute.
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Brian Taylor Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
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Maxim Tkachev Sociologist
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Ivan Tkachev Economics Editor at RBC
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Gerard Toal Political geographer and professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s campus in Arlington, Virginia
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Artem Torchinsky Financial analyst. Editorial Board member, Riddle
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Andras Toth-Czifra Political analyst, author of the analytical blog «No Yardstick»
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Nicholas Trickett Сommodities analyst
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Evgeny Troitskiy Professor, Tomsk State University
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Benjamin Tromly Professor of History, University of Puget Sound
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Maxim Trudolyubov Editor at Inliberty, editor-in-chief at the Russiafile. Contributing opinion writer, The International New York Times. Editorial Board member, Riddle.
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Yuri Tsarik Head of Russian Studies and Co-Founder of Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus).
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Mikhail Turchenko Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, Ostrom Workshop
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Andreas Umland Senior research fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, editor-in-chief of ‘Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society’, ibidem Press, Stuttgart
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Alexey Uvarov Political Scientist
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John Vandevert Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Uppsala University where he studies Russia 1990s rap and the process of post-Soviet identity creation
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Jens Vesterlund Mathiesen Special Advisor, Royal Danish Defence College
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Alexandr Vileikis Head of cultural and educational projects and programmes at the Nekrasov Central Science Library in Moscow, producer of VCIOM book publications
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Denis Volkov Sociologist, Director at Levada Center.
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Julian Waller Research Analyst in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA Corporation) and a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University
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Eric Woods Independent researcher and consultant focused on security issues
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Ilya Yablokov Lecturer in Russian culture at the University of Leeds, expert in Russian media, news making and conspiracy theories.
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Mark Youngman Founder and head of the open-source intelligence and research agency Threatologist.
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Andrey Zakharov Editor of “NZ: Political and Cultural Debates” magazine, comparative federalism expert.
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Margarita Zavadskaya Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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Andrei Zavadski Research Associate at the Institute of Art and Material Culture, TU Dortmund University, Germany, and a co-founding editor of The February Journal.
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Olga Zeveleva Research Fellow, GULAGECHOES, European Research Council, University of Helsinki
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Mikhail Zhadovsky Economist
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Sergey Zhavoronkov Economist, Member of the Board of the Foundation «Liberal Mission»