I am the Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian Politics at University College London in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. I am also currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, in the Laboratory for Regional Political Studies; and a National Committee member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.
I write articles, and provide commentary on, Russian domestic politics, as well as legislative politics in non-democratic regimes.
My academic research focuses on what legislatures do in authoritarian regimes. Specifically, my current research examines how executive actors with divergent policy preferences use legislative institutions to reconcile conflicts in the policy-making process. I focus on Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union.