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.

 

Judyth Twigg, Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University

Areas of expertise include: Asia; global health; health and security; Russia; Eurasia.

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Delgerjargal Uvsh, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Areas of expertise include: Russia; post-Soviet politics; comparative politics; the political economy of natural resource dependence; institutional and regime change; research methods.

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Alexandra Vacroux, Vice President for Strategic Engagement at Kyiv School of Economics

Areas of expertise include: the evolution of the Russian healthcare system, global health, HIV/AIDs and TB in Eurasia, decentralization and recentralization of the Russian state; prerevolutionary Russian history (particularly of Viatka region and the leather/tanning industry).

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Brandon Valeriano, Donald Bren Chair of Military Innovation, Marine Corps University

Areas of expertise include: cyber security, international relations, international security, foreign policy,

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Anna Vassilieva, Professor, Program Head of Russian Studies, Director of Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

Areas of expertise include: Russian intellectual discourse, Siberia and the Russian Pacific, contemporary Russian politics, Russian emigration in Asia, environmental politics and the impact of culture on Soviet and Russian negotiating behavior.

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Denis Volkov, Director, Levada-Center.

Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic politics and public opinion in Russia.

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Andrew Weiss, James Family Chair and Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Areas of interest include: Russian foreign policy and U.S.-Russian relations.

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Arne Westad, Professor, Yale University.

Areas of expertise include: Cold War history, China-Russia relations and the history of the Chinese civil war and the Chinese Communist Party.

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Jeanne Wilson, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies, Emerita, Wheaton College.

Areas of expertise include: Russian and Chinese political behavior in response to domestic and foreign policy challenges, comparative politics and international relations of post-Communist states. 

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Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, S&P Global.

Areas of expertise include: energy, geopolitics and the global economy.

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Yuri Zhukov, Associate Professor, Department of Government & School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Areas of expertise include: causes, dynamics and outcomes of conflict at the international and local levels. 

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Vladislav Zubok, Professor, London School of Economics.

Areas of expertise include: the Cold War, the Soviet Union, stalinism, and Russia’s intellectual history in the 20th century.

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