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Contributors to the Russia File

Contributors

Maxim Trudolyubov

Maxim Trudolyubov

Senior Advisor; Editor-in-Chief, Russia File;
Editor-at-Large, Meduza
Izabella Tabarovsky

Izabella Tabarovsky

Senior Advisor, Regional Partnerships and Programming
Sergey Parkhomenko

Sergey Parkhomenko

Senior Advisor;
Journalist, publisher, organizer of civic projects
William E. Pomeranz

William E. Pomeranz

Senior Fellow; Former Director, Kennan Institute
Rahim Rahimov

Rahim Rahimov

Independent political analyst; Contributing analyst, Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation

Arbakhan K. Magomedov

Former George F. Kennan Fellow;
Visiting Professor, Kansai University
E. Wayne Merry

E. Wayne Merry

Senior Fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council; Former Political Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy in Moscow (1991-94)
Michael Kofman

Michael Kofman

Former Global Fellow;
Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Jill Dougherty

Global Fellow;
Former CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Yulia Latynina

Yulia Latynina

Visiting Expert;
Columnist, Ekho Moskvy; Columnist, Novaya Gazeta
Fedor Krasheninnikov

Fedor Krasheninnikov

Liliya Karimova

Liliya Karimova

Former Title VIII Research Scholar;
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication, the George Washington University
Alice Underwood

Alice Underwood

Former Title VIII Summer Research Scholar;
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Edward Holland

Edward Holland

Former Short-Term Grant;
Independent scholar
Boris Grozovski

Boris Grozovski

Kennan Correspondent on Russian Media and Society;
Journalist and public educator; author of Telegram channel EventsAndTexts

Arkady Dubnov

Russian journalist and political analyst
Vladislav L. Inozemtsev

Vladislav L. Inozemtsev

Special Advisor, Middle East Media Research Institute
Xenia Luchenko

Xenia Luchenko

Assistant Professor at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Yuri Teper

Yuri Teper

Former George F. Kennan Scholar;
ISF Postdoctoral F, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anton Barbashin

Anton Barbashin

Former George F. Kennan Expert;
Editorial Director, Riddle Russia
Matthew Rojansky

Matthew Rojansky

Distinguished Fellow, Kennan Institute;
President and CEO, U.S. Russia Foundation
Olga Oliker

Olga Oliker

Director, Europe and Central Asia Program, International Crisis Group
Denis Sokolov

Denis Sokolov

Former George F. Kennan Expert;
Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA); Research Director, Center for Social and Economic Research of Regions (RAMCOM)

Chris Miller

Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
Dr. Olga R. Gulina

Olga R. Gulina

Former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution;
Founder & CEO of the RUSMPI – Institute on Migration Policy
Dima Course

Dima Course

Ariel University Research Center for Defense and Communication
Pavel Koshkin

Pavel Koshkin

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Rachel S. Salzman

Rachel S. Salzman

Visiting Scholar, Department of European and Eurasian Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Stephen Crowley

Stephen Crowley

Former Fellow;
Professor and Chair, Department of Politics, Oberlin College
Stepan Goncharov

Stepan Goncharov

Sociologist at the Levada Center

Sergey Zhavoronkov

Michael Corbin

Michael Corbin

Former Fellow;
Senior International Trade Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Ilya Yablokov

Russian media and disinformation scholar; Lecturer, Sheffield University
Roman Lunkin

Roman Lunkin

Former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution;
Senior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Stacy R. Closson

Stacy R. Closson

Global Fellow;
National Intelligence University
Vita Spivak

Vita Spivak

Philipp Lottholz

Philipp Lottholz

Doctoral candidate at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham

Leonid Isaev

Senior Lecturer, Department for Political Science of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Deputy Head of the Laboratory for Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks Monitoring, senior fellow at the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies, Institute of African Studies. Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Political Science Association (RPMA).
Anna Arutunyan

Anna Arutunyan

Global Fellow;
Russian-American journalist, analyst, and author

Andrey Miroshnichenko

Former Fulbright Scholar;
Independent Scholar

David Ramseur

Visiting Scholar in Public Policy, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage; Former Chief of Staff, US Senator Mark Begich
Denis Dzhenzhera

Denis Dzhenzhera

 Andrei Babitsky

Andrei Babitsky

Kennan Correspondent on Russian Media and Society;
Journalist; Host of “Snova Nikogda” podcast
Andreas Umland

Andreas Umland

Former Short-Term Grant;
Analyst, the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Andrei Suslov

Andrei Suslov

Former Regional Exchange Scholar;
Professor, Head of Modern and Contemporary Russian History Department, Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University

Eduard Galimullin

Lincoln Pigman

Lincoln Pigman

Contributor to The Russia File;
Student, King's College London
Mary Elizabeth Malinkin

Mary Elizabeth Malinkin

Program Associate;
Kennan Institute

Mark Von Hagen

Former Short-Term Grant;
Administrator, Columbia University
Laura Dean

Laura Dean

Former Title VIII Summer Research Fellow;
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Millikin University
Fabian Burkhardt

Fabian Burkhardt

Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

Gleb Pavlovsky

Political campaign manager who was active as a Kremlin adviser between the mid-1990s and 2011

James Collins

Liaison, Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education
George Sheppard

George Sheppard

Graduate Student, University of Oxford
Emily Couch

Emily Couch

Program Assistant for Eurasia, PEN America
Natalia Rostova

Nataliya Rostova

Former George F. Kennan Scholar;
Senior Correspondent, Republic.ru
Maxim Goryunov

Maxim Goryunov

Nikolay Epplee

Nikolay Epplee

Independent Researcher
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Vladimir Gel'man

Professor, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Claudia Weber

Claudia Weber

Historian
Timothy Frye

Timothy Frye

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

Major General (Res.) Amos Gilead

Executive Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya; Chairman of the IPS Annual Herzliya Conference Series
Lyndon Allin

Lyndon Allin

Senior Associate, Compliance & Investigations Group, Baker McKenzie
Balázs Jarábik

Balázs Jarábik

Eurasia Advisor, Pact; Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Pavel Koshkin

Pavel Koshkin

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Olga Irisova

Olga Irisova

Former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution;
Political Analyst, Cofounder, and Editor-in-Chief, "Riddle"
Victor Martinovich

Victor Martinovich

Assistant Professor, European Humanities University, Vilnius
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

Former Title VIII Summer Research Fellow;
Reader, King’s College Institute
Sergey Davidis

Sergei Davidis

Former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution;
Head of Political Prisoners Support Program; Member of the Council, Memorial Human Rights Center
Pavel Luzin

Pavel Luzin

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of History and Political Science at Perm University
Edward Lemon

Edward Lemon

Global Fellow;
President, Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs; Research Assistant Professor, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University (Washington, D.C. Teaching Site)
Maria Lipman

Maria Lipman

Editor, Russia.Post (russiapost.info), and Visiting Scholar, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University
Dmitry Shabelnikov

Dmitry Shabelnikov

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William H. Hill

Global Fellow;
Former Professor of National Security Strategy, National War College, Washington D.C.