Professor , Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Birmingham; Co-Director, Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) (SSEES-UCL, Oxford, CREES); Associate Fellow, Chatham House
Professor, Chair, Department of Theory of Politics, Deputy Dean for International Activities, School of International Studies, University of Nizhniy Novgorod
Doctor of Historical Science; Head of the Department of Iran and Afghanistan of the Rudaki Instituteof Language, Literature, Oriental and Written Heritage of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Tajikistan