Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Oriental Faculty of the State Academic University for the Humanities
Previous position: Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Director , Centre for Transformation of Political Systems and Political Cultures, Political Science Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Senior Lecturer, World Politics Department, MSU.
Research interests: Maghreb Arab countries political development, historical memory, historical consciousness and national identity formation in Maghreb countries; medieval Arab-Muslim historiography, its forms, historic world map of medieval historiographer; historiography social and political functions.
Selected publications: Writing the World: Structuring the Past in Early Arab-Muslim Historiography (2007), Unity and Plurality of the World in Arab-Muslim Historical-Political Discourses of X-XV Centuries (edited by L.Repina, 2010), Life Before Nascence: History in Medieval Arab-Muslim Structure of Knowledge (2013), Valdai Discussion Club analytical report Transformation in the Arab world and Russia's interests (co-author, 2012), Russian International Affairs Council analytical report Russia and Greater Middle East (co-author, 2013). Published: A Little Blood in Troubled Waters: On the National Crisis in Tunisia, and How Fear Stops Violence That Could Have Been Avoided .Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences;