Biographical note

Andrey Makarychev is Guest Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is widely published on a variety of topics related to Russian foreign policy, including a co-edited volume with Routledge, 2014, a monograph with Ibidem & Columbia University Press, 2014, book chapters in edited volumes with Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, Wiley Blackwell and other publishers, and research articles in major peer-reviewed international journals such as Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of International Relations and Development, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Demokratizatsiya, European Urban and Regional Studies and others. Alexandra Yatsyk is Carnegie Research Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University, USA) and Head of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism (Kazan Federal University, Russia). She has also worked as a lecturer and a visiting researcher at the School of Language, Translation and Literature Studies (University of Tampere, Finland), the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine), and the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (University of Tartu, Estonia). Her research interests include representations of post-Soviet national identities, sports and cultural mega-events, Russia’s protest art, and biopolitics. She is author of chapters published with Palgrave Macmillan (2015), and articles in European Urban and Regional Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, International Spectator, Digital Icons, and other journals.