OUR AUTHORS
Agárdi Izabella — Ph.D, a historian. Her research interests are history, gender studies, contemporary historiography and literary theory. She focuses on the study of analyzing intersections of personal and public narratives, practices of periodization and modes of narrating 20th-century history in Central Europe. She also analyzes how individuals understand historical transformations — including localized forms of understanding and narrating Central-European-type state socialism in a larger context of changes and continuities.
Bába Iván — Ph.D, writer, historian, diplomat. Currently he is a professor at the National University of Public Service in Budapest and the Károly Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. In 1990-2014 he occupied important positions in Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: was Hungarian Ambassador to Poland, the Deputy State Secretary, State Secretary. He is the author of several scientific publications on the collapse of communism and regime change in Hungary and Central Europe.
Bazhan Anatoly — Doctor of Economic Sciences, head of the Department of economic studies of the RAS’ Institute of Europe. Areas of interest — international economic relations, EU economy, monetary policy in the EU and Russia, the theory of monetarism. Main publications — “Money and monetary policy in Western Europe “(2005), “The Role of banks in the development of the Russian economy” (2000).
Belov Vladislav — Candidate of Economic Sciences, IE RAS’ Deputy director, Head of the Center for German Studies, Institute of Europe, RAS. Graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute; worked at IMEMO Academy of Sciences of the USSR; since 1989 — at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main areas of research are the economies of Germany and Russia, Russian-German economic relations.
Busek Erhard — From 1989 was Minister for Science and Research. In 1991 became Chairman of the Austrian People’s Party and served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria in the decisive period of Austria’s joining the EU. In early 2000 Busek was appointed as Special Representative of the Austrian Government on EU-Enlargement. Between 2002-2008 he served as Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. Currently he is Chairman of the Institute of Danube Region and Central Europe. He has written extensively on South East and Central Europe, democratic reform, and economic and environmental cooperation.
Chetverikova Anna — candidate of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of European Countries’ Economy at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO).
Cencus Karol — Doctor of Political Science, expert of the Economic Department of the European Union at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PhD Theses: “Analysis of the factors of the evolution of the international trading system after 1995 “(2016).
Csicsmann László – PhD, Professor, Vice-Rector for Faculty, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations of the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary). Research interests: Islamic world and democracy; political engagement of moderate Islamist organizations in the Middle East; Politics, Society and Economics of the Middle East and North Africa; Muslim minorities in Europe; the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, Kashmir question, nuclearization of South Asia, Afghanistan); Middle East and North Africa from a security perspective (Darfur question, Iranian nuclear program etc.)
Csepeli György — Professor of the Department of social psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (Chair of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in social sciences); Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK). Had been a lecturer at the University of Michigan, New School (New York) and Montclair University. His research interests include areas of social psychology such as national identity, anti-Semitism, anti-Roma sentiment, and conflict resolution. Participates in various projects of the European Union on discrimination and European identity.
Dinušová Dominika — Ph.D, Assistant Professor of the Social Science Department of the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava. Her fields of research include the revolutionary critical thought in history of philosophy, the concept of social change in past and present political discourses and the philosophy and ethics in law enforcement.
Dinuš Peter — Ph.D., independent researcher in the Institute of Political Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His field of research is concentrated on «reconciliation with the past», the critical theory of society with an emphasis on Marxist position of the society development. Among the most significant works of recent times: «Reconciliation with the past» (2010), «Politics without a mask. Political discourse in Slovakia after 1989» (2015).
Dostál Vít – the Director of the AMO (Asociace pro mezinarodní otazky) Research Center. He focuses on Czech foreign and European policy, Central European cooperation, and Polish foreign and domestic policy. Vít has worked for AMO since 2006. During that time he authored or edited many publications dealing with Czech foreign policy and Central Europe. He actively represents AMO at conferences and in the media. Vít completed a doctoral program on European Studies at Masaryk University in Brno in 2017 with a dissertation on the “Paradiplomacy of Czech Regions – Regions as Actors of International Relations”. He did study and work internships in Warsaw and Brussels.
Dotsenko Pavel – Ph.D. student at the Department of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Drynochkin Alexey — Professor, Doctor of Economics. Head of the Economic Department, Trade Representation of the Russian Federation in Hungary. Previously he was Leading researcher at Center for Visegrad Studies, RAS’ Institute of Europe. He also worked in MGIMO University, Department of World Economy. His main area of scientific interests is the economic aspects of transformation processes in Eastern Europe. He is the author of more than 70 scientific and educational works, including the monographs “Eastern Europe as an Element of the Global Market System”, “The Economy of Hungary”, “The Economy of Albania”, as well as chapters in collective monographs of the Institute of Europe RAS (“Visegrad Europe: where from and where to?”) and the Institute of Economics RAS.
Dzwończyk Joanna — Dr Hab., Professor, Department of Political Studies at Cracow University of Economics. She graduated from the Faculty of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in 1989. In 2011, she defended her Doctor thesis: «Political aspects of civil society in Poland after 1989». Major publications: “Populistyczne tendencje w społeczeństwie postsocjalistycznym (na przykładzie Polski)” (2000); «Polityczne aspekty rozwoju społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w Polsce po 1989 roku» (2009).
Golyshev Mikhail — post-graduate student of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Graduate of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
Gorizontov Leonid — Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, head of the Scientific and Educational Center of Polonistics (Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics). Specialist in the history of Russia, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
(XIX–XXI centuries), historical regional studies, the history of Slavic studies. Author of about 200 works. Member of the Commission of Historians of Russia and Poland. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of the Republic of Poland Silver Cross of Merit.
Gridneva Anna — student of the Faculty of International Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University).
Gusev Nikita — Candidate of Historical Sciences, Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Senior Researcher of the Department of the History of Slavic Peoples during the World Wars. He has been working at the Institute of Slavic Studies since 2013. In 2012, he graduated from the Department of History of South and West Slavs, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, specializing in the history of Bulgaria. Research interests — Balkan Wars, Russian public opinion at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Gushchin Alexander — graduate of the Lomonosov Moscow State University’ Department of History, Candidate of historical sciences. Since 2009 Associate Professor, Deputy head of the RSUH’ Department of post-soviet countries. Author of more than 30 scientific and hundreds of expert articles on the subject of the post-soviet space, Russia’s foreign policy and Eurasian integration. He teaches courses on the history of post-soviet countries, Russia’s foreign policy in the Eurasian and post-soviet space, country studies, history and the modern development of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States.
Gyozalyan Ilona — Deputy Head of International Research Practice, VCIOM.
Habarta Andrzej — Graduate of the Department of international economic relations of MGIMO University, Candidate of economic Sciences. Associate Professor of the Department of world economy at MGIMO University, leading researcher of the Visegrad center at the RAS’ Institute of Europe. Specialist in the field of Polish-Russian bilateral cooperation: economic and investment, cross-border, interregional. Co-author of textbooks: “Poland: politics, economy, society”, “Economy of the Visegrad group”, “World economy and international economic relations”, “Prospects of economic globalization”.
Handl Vladimír — JUDr., Csc. A senior associate at the Centre for European Integration. He studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He teaches at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and in the past also worked at the New York University in Prague, as a researcher at the Institute of German Studies, the University of Birmingham and the Foreign Policy Department of the Office of the President. The subject of his professional interest is international relations with a focus on Czech-German relations, their political and historical aspects and Germany’s foreign policy, he also deals with security policy and long-term trends in Germany’s relations with the Visegrad Group countries and German relation with Russia.
Hlaváčková Hana N. — Ph.D, works as an assistant professor at the University of West Bohemia. Graduated from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of West Bohemia in Plzen (Czech Republic). She is engaged in research in the field of security, international relations, conflict management, migration policy. Major publications: “Role Slovinska v integraci zemí západního Balkánu do EU: analýza diskurzu slovinských zahraničně-politických aktérů” (2017); «Zahraniční politika Slovinska, 1. vyd.» (2016).
Hofmokl Jan — Deputy Director of the Eastern Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland responsible for the Eastern Partnership.
Hopta Ivo — graduate of the Brest State University named after A.S. Pushkin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations and graduate of post-doctoral studies in Diplomatic Academy by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs specializing in Political Science and Regional Studies.
Hoptova Luciana — Candidate of historical sciences, researcher at the Institute of History of the Prešov University (Slovakia), Department of philosophy. Her interests include the history of Belarus in the 20th century, Byelorussian emigration to Czechoslovakia and modern Slovakia. Main publications: “The Byelorussian emigration to the territory of Czechoslovakia (1918—1945)” (2017) (Bieloruská emigrácia na území Československa (1918—1945)).
Ilyash György – Graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University. Research Fellow at Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (IFAT) (Budapest, Hungary) specializing on Russia (Russian history, politics, strategic thinking, political processes in the post-Soviet space, transformation of Russian foreign policy).
Jeszenszky Géza — historian by education, graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He taught at the University of Corvinus. One of the founders of the Hungarian Democratic Forum. First Foreign Minister of post-socialist Hungary (1990—1994), Ambassador to the United States (1998—2002), Norway and Iceland (2011—2014). One of the founders of the Visegrad group and the Central European initiative. Under him Hungary joined the Association Agreement with the European Union and applied for membership in this organization. He pursued a policy of incorporating Hungary into Euro-Atlantic structures.
Kamenchuk Olga — Doctor of Psychology, Head of International Research Practice at VCIOM. Professor, Institute for Political Analysis, Northwestern University, USA.
Keskeny Ernő — PhD, Hungarian diplomat, Ambassador to Russia (1998– 2002) and Ukraine (2014–2018). He was also the Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Danube Commission, a Special representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of the CIS Department of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry.
Khlusevich Katsiaryna — student of the Faculty of International Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University).
Kiss David — Undergraduate student of International Business Programme, Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary).
Kornaś Jerzy – Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Department of Political Science, Krakow University of Economics (KEU) (until September 30, 2019). Member of the Senate and Publishing Committee of KEU; since 2012 – representative of the rector of KEU on education; member of the Senate of the Janusz Korczak Pedagogical University in Warsaw; member of the Polish Society of Political Science; Editor-in-Chief of the magazine «Krakowskie Studia Małopolskie».
Korotkova Liya — Student of the Faculty of International Relations, MGIMO University.
Korovitsyna Natalya — Doctor of historical Sciences. Graduate of the Lomonosov Moscow State University’ geographical Department specializing on socialist countries (1976). Had been working at the RAS’ Institute of Slavic Studies (1984—2015). Since January 2018 a leading researcher at the Visegrad center of the RAS’ Institute of Europe. Main research interests: social aspects of transformation processes in Eastern Europe during the second half of 20th and beginning of 21st century. The author of over 100 scientific works, including four monographs.
Kotulewicz-Wisińska Karolina — candidate of economic sciences, Associate Professor of Political Science, Krakow University of Economics. Specialist in Eastern Partnership policy of the European Union.
Kratochvíl Petr — PhD, a senior researcher at the Centre for European Politics. He studied Theology of Christian Traditions at the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University, International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, and International Political Sciences at the University of Economics in Prague. He lectures at Sciences Po in Paris and at the Metropolitan University in Prague. He was also the Chairman of the Academic Council of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic and the deputy director (2004–2013) and then director of IIR. The subject of his professional interest is primarily religion in world politics, particularly Christianity in global affairs. But he also explores Theories of International Relations, European Integration and Russian Foreign Policy. He is a special representative of the IIR in the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), a representative of the IIR and a Board Member in the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), vice-chairman of the Board of the IIR, and a member of several universities´ academic and doctoral studies councils.
Lehoczki Bernadett – PhD, Associate Professor at the Institute for International, Political and Regional Studies, Corvinus University (Budapest, Hungary). Her fields of interest include Latin American studies, migration issues, history of diplomacy (1945 – 1989). At the moment she is studying the system of foreign policy and foreign economic relations of Latin American countries; main trends in international migration and refugee issues.
Lisiakiewicz Rafał — PhD in political sciences, graduate of Historical faculty at the Pedagogical University in Krakow and faculty of Cultural studies at the Institute of Regional Studies of the Jagiellonian University. Currently he works at the Department of Political Sciences at the Cracow University of Economics. He specializes in foreign policy issues, Russian Federation politics, Polish-Russian and Russian-EU relations. He conducts research on the political conditions of economic cooperation with Russia. Becide numerous monographs he is also an author of the monograph “Russia’s policy towards Poland during the presidency of Vladimir Putin (2000–2008)”.
Makarov Mark — student of the Faculty of International Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University).
Marušiak Juraj — PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava (1994). Since 1996, he works at the Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Had been member of the SAS presidium. His research is focused on the history of Slovakia of the 20th century and on the issues of international relations in the region of Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. Beside numerous articles in scientific journals and newspapers he had published a monograph „Slovenská literatúra a moc v druhej polovici päťdesiatych rokov“ (Slovak Literature and the Power in the second half of the 50´s; Brno, Prius 2001), he is co-author of the monograph «(Dez)integračná sila stredoeurópskeho nacionalizmu» (The (Dis)integration Power of Central European Nationalism: A Study of the Visegrad Group Countries; Bratislava, Comenius University 2015).
Mikhalev Oleg — Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor. He teaches at the Department of International Relations and World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University. In 2006-2007 interned at the Institute of History of the University. A. Mickiewicz (Poznan, Poland). His research interests include problems of modern domestic and foreign policy of Poland, the European Union in international relations, and international relations in the post-Soviet space.
Miszlivetz Ferenc — the founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK), a Jean Monnet professor and full professor at the University of Pannonia. He is a scientific advisor at the Centre for Social Sciences at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include democracy, civil society, Central-European and European Studies, globalization and sustainability. He has taught and conducted research at various universities in Europe and the United States. He is the founder and director of the board of the Institute for Social and European Studies Foundation (a Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence). Since 2012 he has served as the president of the Social Sciences unit of the Hungarian UNESCO Committee.
Müller Karel B. – PhD, associate professor and Head of Department of Politics at the University of Economics in Prague. He focuses on the theory of civil society, democracy, political culture and identities, public sphere and the Europeanization. He is actively engaged in a number of NGOs, public policy groups and in municipal politics. He provides consultancy on civic involvement, public affairs and other related issues.
Nenasheva Zoya — Candidate of historical sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Southern and Western Slavic History at Moscow Lomonosov State University. Honored teacher of Moscow University (2008). Member of the Russian Association of WWI historians, participates in the Russian-Czech Commission of historians and archivists. She contributed to the study of neo-Slavism, the political history of the Czech lands, Czech emigration to Russia in the 19th century, Orthodoxy in the Czech lands and the fate of the Czechoslovak corps in Russia. Main works: “Ideological and political struggle in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the beginning of the 20th century. Czechs, Slovaks and neologism. 1898-1914” (1984), “Socio-political thought in the Czech lands in the 19th — early 20th centuries” (1994).
Nosatova Alexandra — student of the MGIMO University.
Pavlova Maria – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Department for European Political Studies, IMEMO RAS.
Pismennaya Maria — post-graduate student of Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Pók Attila – PhD, deputy director of the Institute of History at the Research Centre for Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. He is also vice-president of the Hungarian Historical Association and permanent Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University in New York. His publications and courses cover three major fields: 19th-20th century European political and intellectual history, history of modern European historiography with special regard to political uses of history and theory and the methodology of history writing. His works in English include: A Selected Bibliography of Modern Historiography (1992); The Politics of Hatred in the Middle of Europe. Scapegoating in Twentieth Century Hungary: History and Historiography (2009); volume co-edited with Randolph L. Braham: The Hungarian Holocaust after Fifty Years (1997); volume co-edited with Stuart Macintyre and Juan Maiguashca: The Oxford History of Historical Writing (2011).
Popov Kirill — Candidate of Historical Sciences, graduate of the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Prozumenshchikov Mikhail – Candidate of Historical sciences, historian, Deputy director of the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI).
Rodkiewicz Witold — PhD, Adjunct-Professor at the Centre for East European Studies, University of Warsaw; senior Researcher of the Russian Department of OSW. He holds a Master’s degree in History from the University of Warsaw and a Ph.D.D in history from Harvard University. His main research interests are Russian foreign policy, Russian political thought.
Rusakova Maria — Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies and the Center for Visegrad Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Samorukov Maxim — deputy editor of Carnegie.ru. Before joining Carnegie in 2015, Samorukov worked for the independent news website Slon.ru for five years. He started as a correspondent and then became an editor and international columnist, covering topics including Russian foreign policy, Central Eastern Europe and its relations with Russia, Balkans, and the challenges of transition to democracy.
Sergeev Egor — PhD in Economics, Senior Lecturer at the Department of World Economy of MGIMO-University, Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and Politics of European and American Countries of MGIMO-University, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Regional Problems in World Politics, Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. His main research field and scientific interests include financial integration in the European Union, regional differentiation in the EU, socio-economic development of Benelux and Visegrád countries. He is the author of more than 20 scientific and educational works and co-author of various monographs (such as «Industrial Policy», «International Economic Relations: realities, challenges, prospects» and others).
Shcherbakova Julia — Candidate of Historical sciences, Senior researcher at the Department of Eastern Europe, INION RAS. Candidate dissertation «Political pluralism and democratic development of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (late 80s — 90s of the ХХ century).” Specialist in the field of modern socio-political development, transformation processes, international and regional cooperation, national politics in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She is the author of two monographs: «Czechs and Slovaks: Together and Apart (the Experience of New Statehood)» (2006) and «The Breakup of Czechoslovakia: Estimates Twenty Years Later» (2012), co-author of three more monographs.
Sheinin Eduard — Candidate of Economic Sciences, Leading Research Fellow, Centre for Eastern European studies, Institute of Economics, RAS.
Shishelina Lyubov — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Central and Eastern European studies and the Visegrad center at the RAS’ Institute of Europe. Leading Russian specialist in Hungary and Visegrad region. Since 1984 works at the Academy of Sciences, (in IE RAS from 2006). Between 2004 to 2014 — Professor of the Chair of Social Sciences at Kodolányi János University (Hungary). Since 2007 — Professor of the Department of World politics and international relations at Russian State University of Humanities. Foreign member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2015). In 1994 she founded the permanent international scientific conference “Russia and Central Europe in new geopolitical realities”. From 2012 is the editor of the Special issue on the Visegrad Europe of IE RAS journal “Sovremennaja Evropa”. She is the author of six books, an electronic textbook on modern geopolitics and around 300 articles. Editor-in-chief of 13 monographs on relations between Russia and Central Europe, expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Council on International Affairs. In 2010 she was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian State Order.
Šitler Jiří – a Czech historian and diplomat who has worked in European universities and archives; in the team of the first president of Czechoslovakia – and the Czech Republic –Vaclav Havel. Later he represented the interests of the Czech Republic in the rank of the Ambassador to Southeast Asia, Romania and Sweden as well as in the negotiations on compensation for the Czech victims of the Nazi regime under WW II. He is the author of the numerous essays, articles and books on the political history of Czechia, Czech–German relations, history of the Second World War, as well as on the history of Southeast Asia.
Stańczyk Zbigniew — Doctor of Economics, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Macroeconomics, Krakow University of Economics. Graduated from the Academy of Economics and the Jagiellonian University. Research interests: developing economies and macroeconomic policy; multidisciplinary research based on economics.
Strycharz Damian — Assistant professor of Political Science at the Cracow University of Economics. Damian holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include Russia’s foreign policy and relations with the former Soviet states, domestic political sources of foreign policy, and role theory. He has held positions at the University of Edinburgh and Jagiellonian University, Cracow.
Stepanov Vyacheslav – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Leading research fellow, Department of Contemporary History of Central and Southeastern Europe, Institute for Slavic studies RAS.
Stykalin Alexander — Candidate of Historical Sciences, leading researcher of the Department of the History of Slavic Peoples during the World Wars, the Institute of Slavic Studies (since 1988). He studies the problems of the modern history of Hungary, the history of international relations in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the post-war period, the policy of the USSR in relation to the European socialist countries. Explores the key problems of Soviet-Hungarian and Soviet-Romanian relations. The sphere of scientific interests also includes cultural ties of the 19th–20th centuries. between the peoples of Russia and Hungary, Russia and Romania. Member of the Editorial Board, Resp. secretary of the RAS Journal „Slavic Studies».
Svoboda Karel — Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Russian and East-European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Science, Charles university (Prague, Czech Republic).
Szarka László – Ph.D., Rubicon Institute-Budapest; Doc. at J. Selyeho–Komárno university. Founder of the Institute for the Study of National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2000).
Timofeef Ivan — PhD (political science), a Director of Programs at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) since 2011. RIAC member since 2016. Since 2015 he also heads a “Euro-Atlantic Security” program at Valdai Discussion Club. Before joining RIAC, Dr. Timofeev was the Head of Analytical Monitoring Center and Associate Professor at MGIMO-University (2009–2011). He was awarded a
doctoral degree in Political Science at MGIMO in 2006. He has a Master of Arts in Society and Politics (Lancaster University and Central European University, 2003) and a B.A. in Sociology (Saint-Petersburg State University, 2002). Dr. Timofeev is an author and co-author of more than 80 publications, issued in Russian and foreign academic press. He is a member of editorial board at the “Comparative Politics” — an academic journal on foreign policy and political science. In 2013 Dr. Timofeev was elected as a Professor of the Academy for Military Science.
Tepavcevic Sanja — Research Associate, Polanyi Center, Institute of Advanced Studies (Kőszeg, Hungary); Adjunct Lecturer of International Studies, University of Pannonia (Hungary).
Trofimov Petr – Lecturer of Czech and Slovak languages, Department of Languages of Central and South-Eastern Europe of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University).
Tůma Oldřich – PhD, PhDr., specialist in contemporary history: the post-1945 history of Czechoslovakia and the Cold War history. His original research focus was on medieval history and Byzantine history. After the GCSE exam (1969), he lectured history and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University. In 1975, he was expelled from the University for political reasons. He was allowed to complete his studies as an extramural student (1980; PhDr. degree in 1982). He obtained a PhD degree at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in 2007. In 1993, having returned from an internship at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, he joined the Institute for Contemporary History, where he held the position of the director from 1998 till 2017.
Vagner Petr – Ph.D., Czech historian and Diplomat (10.08.1957 – 23.04.2021).
Vedernikov Mikhail — graduate of the Department of history, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Candidate of historical sciences, senior researcher of the Department of Central and Eastern European studies and the Visegrad center at the RAS’ Institute of Europe.
Vojna Matúš — postgraduate student at the Institute of History of the Prešov University (Slovakia).
Vorotnikov Vladislav — Candidate of historical sciences, leading researcher of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies of the RAS’ Institute of Europe; Associate professor of history and politics of Europe and America at MGIMO University. Research interests: history of the Baltic States, history of Poland, modern socio-political and economic development of the Baltic Sea region, international relations in Central Europe and the Baltic Sea region. Main publications: “Foreign policy of the Baltic States at the beginning of the XXI century “(2015).
Wajda-Lichy Marta — Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Macroeconomics at Krakow University of Economics. Graduate of the Faculty of Economics and International Relations of the KUE. She lectures on macroeconomics, economics of European integration, monetary integration. Since 2012, she is a member of the Polish Economic Society; In 2006 — 2011 she was heading the project ”Strategies of the Euro Area Enlargement“, implemented within the framework of the EU educational Jean Monnet program, and in 2009 — 2016 she was a lecturer of postgraduate studies ”Strategies for the functioning of the Eurozone“, carried out under the auspices of the National Bank of Poland.
Weiner Csaba — Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (Budapest, Hungary).
Yushkov Igor — leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund, expert of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Zadorozhnyuk Ella — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Contemporary History of Central and Southeastern Europe. Historian, specialist in the contemporary history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czechoslovakia), as well as countries of Central and Southeast Europe. She analyzes in a comparatively historical manner the problems of sociopolitical development of the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe, studies the history of the dissident and opposition movements and the history of the “Velvet” revolution in Czechoslovakia, studies the post-socialist development of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, works in the field of historical personology. The author of three individual monographs, actively participated in the writing and editing of collective works.