Leading researcher at the Center for Northern Europe, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the scientific and expert council of the State Commission for Arctic Development.

Born July 19, 1952

From 2009 to 2014, a consultant, adviser, chief adviser to the international security department of the apparatus of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (Administration of the President of the Russian Federation). Secretary of the Global Issues and International Security Section of the Scientific Council under the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Since 2015, Leading Researcher at the Center for Northern Europe, Department of Country Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The main areas of performance:

Expert activity, informational and organizational support of the Institute of Europe RAS activities on:

international cooperation of the countries of the Arctic Council, observer countries of the Arctic Council;
Arctic strategies and policies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland;
the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation (the creation and improvement of supporting zones for the development of the Arctic, state support for the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, the development of the draft Federal Law "On the Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation, etc.)
Public and scientific activities:

Member of the editorial board of the magazines “Arctic Vedomosti” and “Arctic Review”.
Interaction with the editors of the journal of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after MV Lomonosov “Arctic and North”.
Member of the scientific and expert council of the State Commission for the Development of the Arctic.
Member of the International Expert Council for Cooperation in the Arctic.
Deputy Chairman of the Arctic Development Committee of the International Union of Economists.
Member of the Arctic Expert Club. Member of the St. Petersburg Arctic Academy of Sciences in the section "Geopolitics and Security".
Laureate of the All-Russian Award “Golden Crown of Victory” (for the book “Battle of Kursk: A View from the 21st Century”).
State, departmental and public awards:

Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree with the image of swords.
2 orders of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation. 15 medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, EMERCOM of Russia, the Security Council of the Russian Federation, public organizations.
Gratitude and diploma of the Presidential Administration, diploma of the State Duma Committee on Security and the Security Council of the Russian Federation.