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.

 

Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State and Head of Kissinger Associates

Areas of expertise include: U.S.-Russian relations; U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs. 

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Margarete Klein, Senior Associate, Head of Research Division Eastern Europe and Eurasia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik).

Areas of expertise include: Russian security and defense policies and Central Asia.

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Alissa Klots, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise include: Russian and Soviet history, gender history, history of aging

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Michael Kofman, Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Areas of expertise include: Russia, Eurasia and Pakistan, and security issues in Russia and the former Soviet Union, with a specialization in defense and military analysis. 

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Matt Korda, Associate Director for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists

Areas of expertise include: nuclear deterrence and disarmament, progressive foreign policy and the nexus between nuclear weapons, climate change and injustice.

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Nadia Kostyuk, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy and Technology (CMIST)

Areas of expertise include: fields: security studies, modern warfare, cyber conflict, cyber institutions and capability, Russian and Eurasian politics.

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Stephen Kotkin, John P. Birkelund ’52 Professor in History & International Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University; Kleinheinz Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University

Areas of expertise include: authoritarianism, geopolitics, global political economy, empire and modernism in the arts and politics.

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Hans Kristensen, Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists

Areas of specialization include: analysis and background information about the status of nuclear forces and the role of nuclear weapons.

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Andrew Kuchins, Senior Fellow, Center for the National Interest

Areas of expertise include: Russian foreign and domestic policies; Central Asia; Russia and Eurasia; South Caucasus.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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Olga Kuchinskaya, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Areas of expertise include: health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the media's role in downplaying environmental and public health hazards.

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Lukasz Kulesa, Former Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Areas of expertise include: nuclear and conventional deterrence and arms control, NATO, Russian security policy, WMD non-proliferation and security aspects of the transatlantic relationship.

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Ivan Kurilla, Professor,Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College

Areas of expertise include: Russian history, propaganda and memory, 

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