University of Helsinki
Margarita Zavadskaya, Project Leader, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Margarita Zavadskaya’s research focuses on how perceived electoral malpractice affects electoral turnout and other politically relevant outcomes, and how Russian voters consume and process political information translated by the media. This is studied through a series of survey experiments. Margarita Zavadskaya defended her PhD dissertation, “When Elections Subvert Authoritarianism: Failed Co-optation and Russian Post-Electoral Protests of 2011-12”, in the European University Institute, Florence in 2017.
Phone: +358 50 329 7066
Email: margarita.zavadskaya@helsinki.fi
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Elena Gorbacheva, Project researcher, Doctoral Student, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Elena Gorbacheva is a Master of Social Sciences working on her PhD on environmental activism in Russia with main case-study of the protests against Shies landfill construction, as a member of the Research Group on the Russian Environment. From 2020, she started to work as a Project Planner for Electoral Malpractice, Cyber-security, and Political Consequences in Russia and Beyond (ElMaRB) DigiREES projects.
Email: elena.gorbacheva@helsinki.fi
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Viktor Lambin, Project Planner, Doctoral Student, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
Viktor Lambin completed two master’s programmes in European and Nordic Studies, and Global Security Issues. He is working on his PhD on the Enemization of Russian public discourse in national media. Viktor joined the Electoral Malpractice, Cyber-security, and Political Consequences in Russia and Beyond project as a Project Planner in 2022.
Email: viktor.lambin@helsinki.fi
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Past participants:
Amelie Tolvin, Project trainee, Master student at the University of Toronto’s Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
Her focus and interests lie in authoritarianism and protests in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Amelie is currently working on her graduate major research project, which examines the development of the 2020 protest movement in Belarus.
Email: amelie.tolvin@mail.utoronto.ca
Valeria Caras, Project assistant, Master student of the European and Nordic Studies programme at the University of Helsinki
In her master’s project, Valeria studied perceptions of trust of governments across EU states during the corona crisis, determining what factors can explain the varieties of trust and why. Previously Valeria Caras assisted in the research project on EU-Russia security conflicts in Higher Schools of Economics, St. Petersburg.
Email: valeria.caras@helsinki.fi
Bradley Reynolds, Editor, University of Helsinki
Email: bradley.reynolds@helsinki.fi
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