Ryhor Nizhnikau is a Senior Research Fellow in Russia, the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Eurasia programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He works on Russia’s and the EU’s policies towards Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, and studies the institutional transformations and political developments in these countries. He received his PhD in Political Science from Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. He was a visiting fellow at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, and a visiting lecturer at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and the University of Helsinki. His publications include EU-Induced Change in Post-Soviet Space: Promoting Reforms in Moldova and Ukraine (London: Routledge, 2019), and Russian policy towards Belarus after 2020: At a turning point? (Lexington Books, forthcoming), co-edited with Arkady Moshes.
Expertise
The EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, Russian policy in the post-soviet space, domestic and foreign policies of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine
Degrees
PhD, University of Tartu, 2017
Language skills
Belarusian, Russian and English (working languages), French, Swedish and Ukrainian (receptive skills)
D Publications intended for professional communities
Moshes, Arkady & Niszhnikau, Ryhor
ed(s)
(2023).
Russian Policy toward Belarus after 2020 At a Turning Point?
Lexington books.
C Scientific books (monographs)
Moshes, Arkady & Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2023).
Falling into a Trap of the Own Making: Lukashenka’s Foreign Policy since 2020.
In
Moshes, Arkady; Nizhnikau, Ryhor
ed(s):
Russian Policy toward Belarus after 2020: At a Turning Point?
Lexington books.
Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Alvari, Niko (2016).
Ice hockey World Championship in Belarus: Political context.
In
Andrey Makarychev; Aleksandra Yatsyk
ed(s):
Mega-events in post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting borderlines of inclusion and exclusion.
New York:
Palgrave McMillan.
79-97.
