Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen is a Professor in Russian Environmental Studies at the Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies (Aleksanteri Institute), University of Helsinki and holds the title of a Docent in Russian energy and natural resource policies at the Finnish Defence University. He is also a non-resident fellow at the International Centre for […]
Vladimir Gel’man
Vladimir Gel’man is Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, where he also serves as Director of the International MA Programme in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies (MAREEES). His research focuses on the domestic politics and governance of Russia and Eurasia from theoretical and comparative perspectives. Gel’man is […]
Kaarina Aitamurto
Kaarina Aitamurto holds the title of Associate Professor of the Study of Religion and works as a Principal Investigator and researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include the intersection of religion and nationalism in Russia, Islam, and contemporary Slavic Paganism. She has experience of working on projects examining […]
Ramūnas Vilpišauskas
Ramūnas Vilpišauskas is a professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University (IIRPS VU), where he has been teaching since 1996. Since October 2020, he holds a distinctive position of Jean Monnet Chair. Between 2009 and 2019 prof. Vilpišauskas was the director of the IIRPS VU. In 2002–2004 prof. R. Vilpišauskas […]
Vainius Bartaševičius
Vainius received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Sussex in 2020, with a thesis on the politics of citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe. During his PhD years, Vainius taught courses on Migration Policy and the Far Right and Research Methods. In addition, Vainius teaches courses on Migration and Citizenship (elective), Quantitative […]
Margarita Šešelgytė
Prof. Margarita Šešelgytė is the Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. Before that, Prof. Margarita Šešelgytė worked as Deputy Director of Studies at Vilnius University IIRPS, Baltic Defence College (Tartu, Estonia), Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania and European Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. […]
Dovilė Jakniūnaitė
Dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė is professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, head of the Institute’s International Relations Department. Her main fields of expertise are foreign policy analysis, security studies, international relations theory, border studies, Russian foreign policy, conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine, EU Eastern Partnership policy. She is the […]
