Expertise

This is a general and evolving list of Russia experts available to the media and public. Unless otherwise indicated, the experts listed below are not affiliated with Russia Matters in any way.

In addition to the individual experts listed below, we would like to share an interactive multimedia guide to U.S.-Russia relations introduced in June 2019 by Carnegie Corporation of New York, called "U.S.-Russia Relations: Quest for Stability." This educational tool distills the fundamental issuesadversarial and cooperative alikethat define U.S.-Russia relations and harnesses the corporation’s unparalleled access to issue-area expertise, offering contemporary insight and analysis, historical context and a framework for moving toward greater geopolitical stability.

 

Nikolai Sokov, Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.

Areas of expertise include: arms control, disarmament, nuclear weapons, comparative foreign and defense policy and military strategies and great power relations.

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Andrei Soldatov, Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis.

Areas of expertise include: Russian security services, cyber security, disinformation and the rule of law. 

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Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University

Research interests include: globalization and accountability; social movements; gender politics; patriotism and militarism; and state-building in the post-communist region. Courses in comparative politics included: Russian politics; revolution and political violence; mass murder and genocide under communism; transitions to democracy; globalization and democracy; and introduction to women’s studies.

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Kimberly St. Julian Varnon, Ph.D. Student in History, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of expertise include: Soviet nationality policy; race and ethnicity in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet region; African and African Diasporic racial identity and experience in the USSR; subjectivity in the Soviet Union; the Holodomor and peasant understandings of Soviet power in the countryside.

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Tatiana Stanovaya, Founder, R.Politik; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center

Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic politics and foreign policy; impact of interest groups on Russian politics.

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Angela Stent,Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University, a Senior Fellow (non-resident), the Brookings Institution

Areas of expertise include: NATO and U.S. relations with Russia; the triangular political and economic relationship of the United States, Russia and Europe.

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Kathryn E. Stoner, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University.

Areas of expertise include: Russian national power, post-Communist transitions and the political economy of Russia.

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Ivana Stradner, Research Fellow, Barish Center for Media Integrity, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Areas of expertise include: international law; national security; cyberspace; Russian hybrid warfare; U.S.-European relations.

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Gerard Toal, Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech.

Areas of expertise include: post-Communist territorial conflicts, geopolitical orientations in post-Soviet states, U.S. foreign policy, de facto states and public opinion research.

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William H. Tobey, Director, Office of National Security and International Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Senior Fellow, Avoiding Great Power Wars Project, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Areas of expertise include: North Korea nuclear program, nuclear issues, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism and nuclear security.

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Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Areas of expertise include: Russian politics and economics, comparative political economy, analysis of democratization, politics of authoritarian states, political decentralization and corruption.

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Joshua Tucker,Roslyn S. Silver of Politics, Director Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics(CSMaP), Affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Affiliated Professor of Data Science, NYU

Areas of expertise include: comparative political behavior: elections, voting, partisanship, opinion formation and protest; post-communist politics; social media and politics; and data science.

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