Academic degree
PhD, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1992

Expertise
Russia-EU relations

Internal and foreign policy of Ukraine and Belarus

Academic/professional record
1992 - Researcher at the Institute of Europe (Section of Military-Political Studies, European Policy Department)
1996 - Head, Section for European Security and Arms Control
Fall-winter 1998 - Visiting Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
1999 - Head, Section for Security of the CEE and the Baltic Sea Region
2002, summer – Visiting Scholar at the Danish Institute of International Affairs
2002 - Programme Director, Russia and EU Research Programme
2007, summer – Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington

1998-2011 – Regular and occasional guest lecturer, Senior Courses, NATO Defence College (Rome), Royal Danish Defence College, International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC), Geneva Center for Security Policy, External Policy Training Seminar, DG RELEX (Brussels), Baltic Defence College (Tartu), Finnish and Swedish National Defence Colleges, Jena University, University of Helsinki, Turku University; University of Washington (Seattle), Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, Carlton University (Ottawa), University of York (Toronto), University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Danish Institute for International Studies, German Foreign Policy Society, German Association for East European Studies et al.

Positions of trust
Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House

Member of the Programme on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), currently at George Washington University, Washington DC
Member of the Editorial Board of Russian Politics and Law, M.E.Sharp, 2009 -

Academic Director of the Programme “Russia’s European Choice: With or Into the EU?”, FIIA, part of the “Russia in Flux” Programme, Academy of Finland (2004-2007)