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.

 

Steven Pifer, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Areas of expertise include: arms control; national security; Russia; U.S. defense; Ukraine.

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Pavel Podvig, Director, Russian Nuclear Forces Project

Areas of expertise include: arms control; U.S.-Russian missile treaties; Russian tactical and strategic nuclear policy.

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William Potter, Founding Director of James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Areas of expertise include: arms control, Russian nuclear posture, U.S.-Russian relations and nuclear terrorism.

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Khasan Redjaboev, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville

Areas of expertise include: political regimes, international organizations, bureaucracies and public administration, politics of post-Soviet Eurasia and Southeast Asia.

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Matthew Rojansky, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S.-Russia Foundation

Areas of interest include: U.S. relations with Russia, Ukraine and the post-Soviet region.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Assistant Director of Slavic and Director of European Studies, University of Cincinnati

Areas of expertise include: Russia; Central and Southeast Europe; former Yugoslavia; cultural movements and identity formation; literature and film; minority-majority relations; émigré and exile literature; the application of post-colonial thought to post-socialist contexts.

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Eugene Rumer, Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Areas of expertise include: managing the U.S.-Russia standoff; task force on U.S. policy toward Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia; the return of global Russia.

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Peter Rutland, Professor, Colin and Nancy Campbell Chair for Global Issues and Democratic Thought, Wesleyan University.

Areas of expertise include: Russian domestic politics, history and Russian nationalism.

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Domitilla Sagramoso, Senior Lecturer in Security and Development, School of Security Studies, King’s College London

Research interests include: conflict, security and development in Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia; terrorism, violence and Islam in Eurasia; violence and conflict in the North Caucasus; Russia's relations with the European Union and NATO.

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Gary Samore, Professor of the Practice of Politics and Crown Family Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Areas of interest include: military strategy; U.S. foreign policy; homeland security; terrorism and counterterrorism; nuclear proliferation and security.

Russia Matters editorial board member.

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Simon Saradzhyan, Founding Director, Russia Matters Project, and Assistant Director, US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Areas of expertise include: Russia's foreign, defense and security policies; Russia's nuclear program; international relations terrorism and counterterrorism; nuclear terrorism; national power; military intervention; international security and defense; space security.

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Mary E. Sarotte, Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Areas of expertise include: Russia-NATO relations and the Cold War.

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