Experts

PhD Candidate in International Relations at Central European University. He specializes on body politics and political violence.

Ph.D. in philosophy and security studies. Lecturer in the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw

Political sociologist, postdoctoral fellow at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London, and a researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory, St. Petersburg.

Council member, Movement for Defence of Voters’ Rights “Golos”

Lecturer in Digital Entrepreneurship at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

PhD in history. Political analyst of Russia and wider Eurasian region. Lecturer at Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University

Coordinator of the ECHR program at  OVD-Info, human rights media project

Editorial director at Riddle, political analyst

Research Fellow, Center for Comparative History and Political Studies

Sociologist, Ph.D. in economics

Independent researcher

Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, EUSP

Political scientist, journalist. PhD in History. 2007 – 2011 – co-chairman of the “Right Cause” political party.

Editorial Board, Riddle. 2015−2018 — Editorial Board, Intersection. Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for East European Studies (IOS), Regensburg. Editor, Russland-Analysen.

Political scientist

Political analyst, associated expert at Eastern Europe Studies Centre (Lithuania) and Expert-Grup (Moldova)

Analyst on conflict, nationalism, and security in the North Caucasus

Head of Research Programs at the Reform Assistance Center (Kyiv), Coordinator of the European Dialogue Expert Group in Ukraine

Research Program Assistant, Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington…

Professor, Department of Politics, Oberlin College

Post-graduate student in Russian & East European studies at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College

Human rights activist, Head of Political Prisoners Support Program at the Memorial Human Rights Center

Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Partner at Social Business Group.

Publicist, chief editor of the ‘New ethics’ project

Director of Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM). Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, 2011 — 2016.

Postdoctoral researcher at Bremen University. He studies protest, social movements, and their connections to politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

Associate research fellow of the Centre for Independent Social Research. Until July 2017 — associate research scholar at Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations, Central European University

Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick, specialising in Russian militarism, use of memory, and patriotic education systems

Professor of Russian Language, Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University

Cultural historian, philologist, journalist. His publications have appeared at Vedomosti, InLiberty, Arzamas, Republic, Colta.

Professor, Department of Political Science, State University of New York

International arbitration lawyer and research student at University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies

PhD in Political Science. Specialist in the field of political semiotics, researcher of Russian political discourse.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan

Marshall D. Shulman Professor, Columbia University; Co-director, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Higher School of Economics

Legal analyst at the Agora International Human Rights Group

PhD, regular contributor to The National Interest, Forbes Russia, The Hill and The American Thinker. Head of American Studies Scientific-Analytical…

Visiting Fellow, Annenberg School of Communications & Journalism, University of Southern California

Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics at the University of Groningen

Political Scientist, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Political Science, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)

Special Adviser on Sanctions Law at Pen & Paper. Lecturer, Department of International Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University

International desk reporter at News.ru

Professor and Head of Political Science Department, European University at St. Petersburg

Sociologist at Levada-Center. Political scientist.

Researcher in the Project «Arms Control and Emerging Technologies» at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)

PhD Candidate, Russian history, University of Maryland, College Park

Political scientist at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Political scientist, associate professor of the Faculty of International Relations of Saint Petersburg State University

Senior Research Associate at the Public International Law & Policy Group’s Netherland’s Office

Director and founder of the Institute on Migration Policy. Member of the EU-Russia Civil Society Advocacy Group.

PhD student at University of Cambridge, guest researcher at the Swedish Defence University

Analyst working on North and South Caucasus. Formerly senior intelligence analyst at The SecDev Group in Ottawa, Canada.

Non-resident fellow at Newlines and a doctoral candidate at London School of Economics Department of International History

Head of Political Risk at Hawthorn Advisors and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies’ Department of Politics at Freie Universität Berlin

Senior Researcher at Helsinki University’s Aleksanteri Institute

Attorney, sanctions law expert and a Managing Partner of the Moscow Office of Pen & Paper

Director, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies (Moscow).

Editor-in-Chief at Riddle, political analyst. Galina Starovoitova Fellow at Kennan Institute (2019). German chancellor fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021−2022)

Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Studies and African Studies, HSE in St. Petersburg. Senior Researcher, Institute of Africa, RAS

Lecturer in Security Studies, Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow

Political scientist, an expert of the Movement for Defence of Voters’ Rights «Golos»

PhD candidate, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, focusing on judicial politics and law enforcement in Russia

Legal Analyst, Agora International Human Rights Group. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Russian Law Academy for Women’s Rights

Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Doctoral candidate in International Relations at the University of Tartu, Estonia

Director of the Russia Studies Program at the CNA Corporation and a Senior Adjunct Fellow, CNAS

PR-consultant. Chief Editor of the OIA (http://openinform.ru).

Junior Research Fellow at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Foreign policy correspondence with Kommersant newspaper

Lecturer in International Peace & Security, Dept of War Studies, King’s College London

PhD in contrastive linguistics, researcher with the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhampton (UK)

Professor of History and International Relations, European University at St. Petersburg

Associate Director and research professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University

MPhil candidate in Russian & East European studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford

PhD Candidate in political science at the George Washington University, specializing in ethnic politics and regional development in Russia

Head of Sociocultural Research at Levada Center. Professor at Moscow Higher School of Economics.

Journalist. Editor-in-chief of the independent news agency “Gorod32”

Specialist in international relations, expert on the Russian Armed Forces. Political scientist (PhD).

Visiting Professor, Kansai University

Non-resident expert at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Graduate student at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service studying the conventional Russian military.

Political science master student at Central European University

Head of International Order and Democracy Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

PhD Candidate at Central European University, Budapest. Visiting PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford in 2019.

Journalist

Master of European Studies, Jagiellonian University. Intern at the Center for Global Freedom and Prosperity at the Cato Institute.

Political scientist and research fellow at the Russian Studies Center Boris Nemtsov at Charles University

Ethnographer of postsocialist societies and is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Coordinator of the ‘Zona Prava’ human rights organization

Independent Defence Analyst | Director, Rochan Consulting

Philosopher, historian, and writer. Ph.D. in Philosophy, MA in Gender and Women studies

Psychologist, Ph.D. in psychology. Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology, Kosygin State University of Russia

Associate Professor of Russian Politics, University College London; and Associate Fellow, Chatham House

Moscow Correspondent for bne IntelliNews

Senior Lecturer in the History Faculty, Department of Ethnology, Moscow State University; Research Fellow, Institute of Social Policy, HSE

Senior Program Manager, Eurasia at Freedom House

Lecturer in the International Relations of Eurasia, University of Exeter

Head of the GULAGECHOES project, European Research Council, University of Helsinki

Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent

Journalist

Research Fellow at The Foreign Policy Centre (UK), postgraduate student at the University of Oxford

Political Scientist, European University at Saint Petersburg

MA in Political Science, European University at St. Petersburg

PhD candidate in CEU Budapest, research fellow in Yehuda Elcana Center for Higher Education Research

Political analyst. «Moscow political club» coordinator, european observer for the independent news agency «Rosbalt» and Deutsche Welle columnist.

Compliance Specialist, Associate Professor of Russian Foreign Trade Academy

Journalist and a staff writer at RBC

Director of Research, School of Law & Politics, Cardiff University

Doctoral student in political history at the University of Helsinki and an associated researcher with the Academy of Finland

Researcher, Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen in the context of the EU-funded ITN «Markets».

Junior researcher at the University of Tyumen and the editor of Russian online-magazine about education “Mel”

PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations and Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University

Senior Researcher, Center for Comparative History and Politics

Political scientist, RIAC expert

Expert, Movement for Defence of Voters’ Rights “Golos”

Visiting senior fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Junior Research Fellow at Center for Comparative Governance Studies, HSE. Public Policy PhD candidate, Central European University.

Professor, Russia Institute, King’s College London

Senior research fellow, Institute for USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics

OVD-info lawyer and analyst

External Lecturer in Political Science, University of Vienna and General Editor of the ‘Explorations of the Far Right’, ibidem-Verlag

Political scientist, EU-Russia studies at the University of Tartu

Senior Fellow of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House

Senior Research Fellow, Higher School of Economics

Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Media culturologist, doctor of political sciences, professor. Author of monographs on the problems of new media and political communications

OVD-info analyst

Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, HSE

Historian. Deputy Executive Director of The Yeltsin Foundation on scientific work. Chairman of the board of the Free Historical Society.

Political Science PhD candidate, HSE, Junior Research Fellow at Center for Comparative Governance Studies, HSE

Independent researcher

Analyst at Control Risks, a global consulting firm

Founder / CEO at R.Politik. Former chief of the Centre for Political Technologies analysis department

Fellow of the Center for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University (Canada), expert on Russian nuclear policy and nuclear industry

Political scientist and historian (FU Berlin), and director of the Berlin Center for East European Studies (Osteuropa-Zentrum Berlin e.V.).

Analyst at the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg

Lecturer in the University of Alberta, MacEwan University and Concordia University of Edmonton

PhD candidate in political science, Researcher at Center for Culture and Civilization Studies, Yerevan State University

Researcher, manager for regional engagement at the Kennan Institute.

Researcher at the Alexander Institute of the University of Helsinki

Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Economics Editor at RBC

Research fellow, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Financial analyst. Editorial Board member, Riddle

Political analyst, author of the analytical blog «No Yardstick»

Сommodities analyst

Professor, Tomsk State University

Professor of History, University of Puget Sound

Editor at Inliberty, editor-in-chief at the Russiafile. Contributing opinion writer, The International New York Times. Editorial Board member, Riddle.

Head of Russian Studies and Co-Founder of Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus).

Political scientist, PhD

Senior research fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, editor-in-chief of ‘Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society’, ibidem Press, Stuttgart

Head of cultural and educational projects and programmes at the Nekrasov Central Science Library in Moscow, producer of VCIOM book publications

Sociologist, Director at Levada Center.

Non-Resident Fellow at the Illiberalism Studies Program and a Ph. D Candidate in Political Science at George Washington University

Independent researcher and consultant focused on security issues

Lecturer in Russian culture at the University of Leeds, expert in Russian media, news making and conspiracy theories.

Editor of “NZ: Political and Cultural Debates” magazine, comparative federalism expert.

Political scientist. Member of the Editorial Board, Riddle

Research fellow, Department of Political Science, European University in St. Petersburg. Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki

Research Fellow, GULAGECHOES, European Research Council, University of Helsinki

Economist, Member of the Board of the Foundation «Liberal Mission»