Experts
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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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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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Emil Avdaliani PhD in history. Political analyst of Russia and wider Eurasian region. Lecturer at Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University
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Alexandra Baeva Coordinator of the ECHR program at OVD-Info, human rights media project
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Anton Barbashin Editorial director at Riddle, political analyst
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Vsevolod Bederson Research Fellow, Center for Comparative History and Political Studies at Perm State
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Sergey Belanovsky Sociologist, Ph.D. in economics
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Ekaterina Borovikova Independent researcher
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Ekaterina Borozdina Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, EUSP
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Georgy Bovt Political scientist, journalist. PhD in History. 2007 – 2011 – co-chairman of the “Right Cause” political party.
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Fabian Burkhardt Editorial Board, Riddle. 2015−2018 — Editorial Board, Intersection. Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for East European Studies (IOS), Regensburg. Editor, Russland-Analysen.
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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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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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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, Head of Political Prisoners Support Program at the Memorial Human Rights Center
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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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Ivan Davydov Publicist, chief editor of the ‘New ethics’ project
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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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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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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 Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick, 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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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 PhD in Political Science. Specialist in the field of political semiotics, researcher of Russian political discourse.
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Natalia Forrat Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, 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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Damir Gainutdinov Legal analyst at the Agora International Human Rights Group
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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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Vladimir Gel’man Political Scientist, PhD
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Alexey Gilyov Associate Professor, Department of Applied Political Science, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
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Sergey Glandin Special Adviser on Sanctions Law at Pen & Paper. Lecturer, Department of International Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Lyubov Glazunova International desk reporter at News.ru
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Grigorii Golosov Professor and Head of Political Science Department, European University at St. Petersburg
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Stepan Goncharov Sociologist at Levada-Center. Political scientist.
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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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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 PhD student researching Swedish military history at the University of Cambridge
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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 Non-resident fellow at Newlines and a doctoral candidate at 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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Sebastian Hoppe Research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies’ Department of Politics at Freie Universität Berlin
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Brendan Humphreys Senior Researcher at Helsinki University’s Aleksanteri Institute
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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 Director, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies (Moscow).
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Olga Irisova Editor-in-Chief at Riddle, political analyst. Galina Starovoitova Fellow at Kennan Institute (2019). German chancellor fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021−2022)
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Leonid Isaev Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Studies and African Studies, HSE in St. Petersburg. Senior Researcher, Institute of Africa, RAS
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Marcin Kaczmarski Lecturer in Security Studies, Central & East European Studies, University of Glasgow
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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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Irina Khrunova Legal Analyst, Agora International Human Rights Group. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Russian Law Academy for Women’s Rights
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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 Doctoral candidate in International Relations at the University of Tartu, Estonia
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Michael Kofman Director of the Russia Studies Program at the CNA Corporation and a Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C.
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Dmitri Kolbasin PR-consultant. Chief Editor of the OIA (http://openinform.ru).
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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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Ivan Kurilla Professor of History and International Relations, European University at St. Petersburg
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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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Alexey Levinson Head of Sociocultural Research at Levada Center. Professor at Moscow Higher School of Economics.
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Yuri Lobunov Journalist. Editor-in-chief of the independent news agency “Gorod32”
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Pavel Luzin Specialist in international relations, expert on the Russian Armed Forces. Political scientist (PhD).
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Arbakhan K. Magomedov Visiting Professor, Kansai University
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Anton Mardasov Non-resident expert at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
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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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Lika Mchedlidze Political science master student at Central European University
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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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Anastasia Mironova Journalist
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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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Alexander Morozov Political scientist and research fellow at the Russian Studies Center Boris Nemtsov at Charles University
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Jeremy Morris Ethnographer of postsocialist societies and is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Bulat Mukhamedzhanov Coordinator of the ‘Zona Prava’ human rights organization
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Mikhail Nemtsev Philosopher, historian, and writer. Ph.D. in Philosophy, MA in Gender and Women studies
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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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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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Sofya Orlosky Senior Program Manager, Eurasia at Freedom House
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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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Andrey Pertsev Journalist, Meduza Special Correspondent
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Yulia Petrovskaya Journalist
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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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Victoria Poltoratskaya Political Scientist, European University at Saint Petersburg
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Elizaveta Popkova MA in Political Science, European University at St. Petersburg
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Elizaveta Potapova PhD candidate in CEU Budapest, research fellow in Yehuda Elcana Center for Higher Education Research
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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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Bradley Reynolds Doctoral student in political history at the University of Helsinki and an associated researcher with the Academy of Finland
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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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Ella Rossman Junior researcher at the University of Tyumen and the editor of Russian online-magazine about education “Mel”
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Lilia Sablina PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations and Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University
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Andrey Semenov Senior Researcher, Center for Comparative History and Politics
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Kirill Semyonov Political scientist, RIAC expert
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Denis Shadrin Expert, Movement for Defence of Voters’ Rights “Golos”
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Maria Shagina Visiting senior fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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Kirill Shamiev Junior Research Fellow at Center for Comparative Governance Studies, HSE. Public Policy PhD candidate, Central European University.
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Gulnaz Sharafutdinova Professor, Russia Institute, King’s College London
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Pavel Sharikov Senior research fellow, Institute for USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Andrey Shcherbak Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics
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Denis Shedov OVD-info 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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Taya Shentseva Political scientist, EU-Russia studies at the University of Tartu
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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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Alisa Shishkina Senior Research Fellow, Higher School of Economics
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Stanislav Shkel Professor of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics
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Svetlana Shomova Media culturologist, doctor of political sciences, professor. Author of monographs on the problems of new media and political communications
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Natalia Smirnova OVD-info analyst
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Boris Sokolov Senior Research Fellow, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, HSE
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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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Aleksei Sorbale Political Science PhD candidate, HSE, Junior Research Fellow at Center for Comparative Governance Studies, HSE
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Maxim Sorokin Independent researcher
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Vita Spivak Analyst at Control Risks, a global consulting firm
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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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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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Denis Stremoukhov Analyst at the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg
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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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Anna Tarasenko Researcher at the Alexander Institute of the University of Helsinki
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Brian Taylor Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
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Ivan Tkachev Economics Editor at RBC
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Tatiana Tkacheva Research fellow, Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics
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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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Nick 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 Political scientist, PhD
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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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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 Non-Resident Fellow at the Illiberalism Studies Program and a Ph. D Candidate in Political Science 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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Andrey Zakharov Editor of “NZ: Political and Cultural Debates” magazine, comparative federalism expert.
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Olesya Zakharova Political scientist. Member of the Editorial Board, Riddle
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Margarita Zavadskaya Research fellow, Department of Political Science, European University in St. Petersburg. Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki
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Olga Zeveleva Research Fellow, GULAGECHOES, European Research Council, University of Helsinki
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Sergey Zhavoronkov Economist, Member of the Board of the Foundation «Liberal Mission»