Authors

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

Analyst

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

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

Publicist, chief editor of the ‘New ethics’ project

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

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

Political Scientist, PhD

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

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

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

Leads a project on population expulsion at Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki

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)

Political scientist

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

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

Research fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn, Estonia

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

Professor and director of the Peace Lab on Reconciling Conflict and Intergroup Divisions at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George…

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

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

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

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

Applied Literary Studies student at FU Berlin, copyright manager at Suhrkamp Verlag

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

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.

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

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

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

MA in Political Science, European University at St. Petersburg

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

Research Fellow, The Baltic Sea Region and the Post-Cold War Hysteresis, BALTRANS

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

Kharkiv University and Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki

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

Political scientist

Independent researcher

Political Scientist

Political Scientist

Editor-in-chief of Individuum publishing house. German chancellor fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021−2023)

Senior Researcher, Center for Comparative History and Politics

Visiting senior fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Professor, Russia Institute, King’s College London

Lawyer and analyst

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

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

Analyst

Political Scientist

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

Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, HSE

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.).

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

Researcher, manager for regional engagement at the Kennan Institute.

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

Sociologist

Economics Editor at RBC

Political geographer and professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech’s campus in Arlington, Virginia

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

Visiting researcher at the University of Bonn, Department of Eastern European History. Holder of the Scholars at Risk scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

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»