About

Russia, Moscow, Deputy. Director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Head of the Department of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the ISAA of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Professor of the Department of History of the Near and Middle East ISAA of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Head of the Caucasus and Central Asia Center. From 2008 to the present - Head of the Department of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Deputy Director for Educational Work. Member of the Expert Council on National and Migration Policy and Interaction with Religious Organizations under the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District, Member of the Expert Council under the CIS Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Expert of RIA-Novosti (CIS and Baltic Countries Department). Member of the Council of Nationalities under the Government of Moscow. Member of the Academic Council of ISAA MSU. Full member of the Academy of Humanities (Russia). Honorary Professor of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan). Author of more than 100 publications, including in SCOPUS.

Organizer of youth quests, scientific and practical conferences, debates, intellectual games and other events for students and youth. Initiator and organizer of the Festival "Silk Road-the Way of Friendship and Peace" (March 2017), dedicated to the X1X World Festival of Youth and Students in Sochi. Advisor Youth Assembly of the Peoples of Russia "WE ARE RUSSIANS".