Galina Belolubskaya, YSU

Galina Belolubskaya is a graduate of the Historical Faculty of Yakutsk State University. She has worked as an assistant at the Department of Political Science since 2002, where she teaches the general course of political science. Her main interests are the role and importance of NGOs in the forming and functioning of civil society, the problems of cooperation between state and public institutes, democracy development. Galina published several articles on topics of nonprofit organizations and civil society.

Sergei Kukharenko, AmSU

Sergei Kukharenko teaches at the Amur State University (AmSU), located in Blagoveschensk. He works at the department of English Philology and Translation, and at the department of World History. Kukharenko received his degree from the faculty of foreign languages at the Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University in 2002, department of English and Chinese. From 2002 to 2003 he successfully completed IDL 101, 103 and 104 courses, and in 2004 he started teaching IDL 102 and 103. Presently, he is a post-graduate student at the faculty of social sciences, specializing in religion studies with a focus on oriental religions. His thesis investigates Chinese migration to Western Europe and cross-cultural interaction between the immigrants and the host community.

Svetlana Kurganova, SSU

Svetlana Kurganova graduated from Saratov State University, Department of Sociology in 2001. Currently she is a postgraduate student in sociology, Saratov State University. She is an assistant and instructor in the Center of Regional Sociological Research, Saratov State University. Among the courses she teaches are: Data Analyses in Sociology, Theory and Methodology of Sociological Research, and others.

Svetlana’s active participation in 3-year joint project of Wyoming State University and Saratov State University, aimed at the modernization of the educational process, gives her international experience in joint courses and distance learning activities.

Svetlana is an instructor for IDL courses 101 and 102 at Saratov State University.

Alexander Larichev, PSU

Alexander Larichev is the Manager of the International Center of the Faculty of Law of Petrozavodsk State University, responsible for international projects and programs, fundraising activities of the Faculty. In 1998, Mr. Larichev participated in the Freedom Support Act (FSA/FLEX) exchange student program and later received an award from the Council on International Educational Exchange and the United States Information Agency (USIA) for successful completion of the Ambassador Project program. He was also awarded Arkansas Traveler (Ambassador) Diploma and Government diploma on capital citation to the State of Arkansas, USA.

In 1999, Mr. Larichev enrolled in the undergraduate program of the Faculty of Law of PetrSU. During his student years in PetrSU, Mr.Larichev actively participated in various activities and international projects of the university. He was twice the Captain (in 2005- trainer) of the Petrozavodsk State University Team participating in the Jessup Moot Court Competition (Russian National Round); participated in International Environmental Law schools offered by Vermont School of Law (USA) and worked in the project team of the 2002-2005 NISCUPP Grant of PetrSU- Vermont Law School (USA) Partnership. He also completed 2 Stanford IDL courses- 101 and 104. In 2004, Mr. Larichev received a Diploma with Honors in Jurisprudence from Petrozavodsk State University.

In 2003, Mr. Larichev served as a secretary in the Arbitrazh (Business) Court of the Republic of Karelia. Later, he completed the course “Project management and fundraising”, offered by the School of Project Managers, Northern European Open University. Upon his graduation from the university, he was appointed the head of the International Center of the Faculty of Law of PetrSU where he works up till date. Presently, he also serves as the coordinator of the Russian-American center for federalism and comparative law studies.

Mr. Larichev is enrolled in the postgraduate course of the Faculty of Law and teaches the courses “Maritime law” and “International treaties of Russia” at the Faculty, as well as “International law”, “Administrative law” and “Municipal law” at the Faculty branches. His scientific interests lie in the area of international law, comparative constitutional and administrative law of the US and Russia.

Eduard Meilakh, SUSU

Eduard Meilakh has worked as a voluntary activist of the environmental non-government organization ‘Movement for Nuclear Safety’ (http://www.nuclearpolicy.ru) since 1998. At the present he teaches at the Southern Urals State University, PhD in biology (ecology), and is currently the instructor of IDL 102 ‘International Environmental Policy’. He received his PhD in biology/ecology in 2003 (Moscow State Forestry University), and has the highest education in ecology and biology (2000, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University). In addition, he successfully completed the course ‘International Environmental Policy’ from the Stanford Institute for International Studies (23 May, 2002), and completed a course of journalism (Institute of Additional Creative Profession, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, 2000).

At the present Ed Meilakh teaches environmental law at the Russian Academy of Justice, Urals Department (as an assistant professor) and various environmental courses at the Southern Urals State University (as a senior lecturer). He has worked as an instructor at the Southern Urals State University since 2001. Ed Meilakh has experience working in the environmental sphere as a freelance member of state ecological expertise commissions and as a freelance journalist (including publications in the national journal ‘Ecology and Rights’, and the daily newspaper ‘Urals Courier’).

In 1999, Mr. Larichev enrolled in the undergraduate program of the Faculty of Law of PetrSU. During his student years in PetrSU, Mr.Larichev actively participated in various activities and international projects of the university. He was twice the Captain (in 2005- trainer) of the Petrozavodsk State University Team participating in the Jessup Moot Court Competition (Russian National Round); participated in International Environmental Law schools offered by Vermont School of Law (USA) and worked in the project team of the 2002-2005 NISCUPP Grant of PetrSU- Vermont Law School (USA) Partnership. He also completed 2 Stanford IDL courses- 101 and 104. In 2004, Mr. Larichev received a Diploma with Honors in Jurisprudence from Petrozavodsk State University.

Anna Smirnova, YSU

Anna Smirnova is Assistant Professor at the Chair of Social and Political Psychology, Department of Psychology, Yaroslavl State University. She has a Candidate of Science Degree in Political Science from Moscow State University (Russia). Awards include a Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences for the competition among young scholars for accomplishment in research (2004), and a nomination for the “World Economy and International Relations”. She has published articles in the journals “Polis (Political Studies)” (Russia), and Psicologia Politica (Spain). Research interests include the psychological aspects of international relations, political cognition, and decision-making.

Mikhail Strakhov, SSU

Mikhail Strakhov is currently an assistant of the Department of Sociology of Saratov State University. Along with teaching he is also working on his candidate's thesis in Sociology. His research interests include Methods of Sociological Research, Sociology of Organizations, Political Sociology and other fields.

Mikhail graduated from Sociology Department of Saratov State University in 2001, and entered postgraduate studies program in the field of Sociology. In 2002 he became a participant of the exchange program between Saratov State University and the University of Wyoming and spent the academic year of 2002-2003 at the Survey Research Center of the University of Wyoming. Mikhail became an instructor of IDL 103 and IDL 104 courses at Saratov State University in the fall semester of 2003.

Andrey N. Subochev, MHSE

Andrey N. Subochev is a lecturer at the Department of Applied Political Science (Chair of Political Theory), State University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and works as an instructor for SIIS/IDL from the beginning of MHSE's participation in the program in March, 2002.

He graduated from Moscow State University (Department of Physics) with Diploma cum laude in Physics in 1996; then entered the M.S. program of the State University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow) in 1997, where he received his M.S. degree in Sociology in 1999 and was subsequently offered a position at the Department of Applied Political Science.

Mr. Subochev's scientific interests focus on four major fields: 1) globalisation and its implications for national and international politics, anti-globalist movement, emergence of informational society; 2) CIS politics; 3) mathematical models and methods in political science and other social sciences; 4) epistemology and its relationship with social sciences.

He has published several texts: on post-Soviet space integration processes and Russian federalism as their factor, on phenomenon of anti-globalism, on neo-Eurasian movement. He has also made a number of scientific translations including two chapters from Manuel Castell’s trilogy "Informational Age: Economy, Society and Culture" for the first (and only) Russian edition of this book (grant of “Open Society” Institute).

Alan Uadati, NOSU

Alan Uadati is the Director of the International Information Department at North Ossetian State University (NOSU). He graduated the Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University in 1994 and the Faculty of Law of NOSU in 2004. Currently he is a member of the teaching staff at the Department of Business Law of NOSU, where he teaches law for marketing students. In 2004 Alan received a scholarship to participate in the Master in Professional Studies in Sustainable Development, organized jointly by the Forum for the Future (UK) and Middlesex University (UK).

Since 1998 Alan has worked in various International development and academic projects in partnership with the European Commission, Utah State University, Ford Foundation, Ankara University, IREX, University of Amsterdam, Charles University and others. On a part-time basis Alan also works as the Deputy Director of the North Ossetian Centre for Internet Education.

Nadezhda Vasyutina, USU

Nadezhda Vasyutina is an instructor at the Urals State University for Stanford University’s Initiative on Distance Learning Program. In addition, she is a teacher of English at the department of International Relations and a post-graduate student of English Literature. Vasyutina also lectures on theoretical linguistics and medieval Western literature. She is a graduate of the department of Germanic Philology, USU (2003). In 1998 Vasyutina received a FSA/FLEX fellowship to study in the United States. Her fields of scholarly interest include poststructuralist British fiction, colonial writing, medieval gender studies, and environmental studies.

Yulia Yamineva, SUSU

Ms. Yamineva is a recent graduate of the SUSU Law School. She is an assistant professor at the department of Political Science at SUSU. Among the courses she teaches at the department are “ Legal Science” and “ Environmental Security”. Her interests are in  the area of environmental sciences, environmental politics, the role of NGO in decision making process and legal regulations of political activity. Yulia is active in regional NGOs and serves as project manger for  “Radiation monitoring of Chelyabinsk region”. She lectures for the students in the  "School of democracy" project and serves as a Legal consultant  for nuclear victims living within the radiation influence zone in Chelyabinks. Ms. Yamineva writes on the issues of environmental security in the Chelyabinsk region and on legal regulations of relations with bordering CIS states.