The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, 25-27.08.2025
7:00 pm, Theater Bremen, Foyer Großes Haus
“White But Not Quite": Does anti-eastern European racism exist?
with author Ivan Kalmar
Introduction: Klaas Anders, Moderation: Anke Hilbrenner
Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Dr. Olga Masyutina
affiliated researcher
masyutina@uni-bremen.de
Research Interests
Authoritarian politics; Russia and post-soviet countries; institutional change; subnational elites; environmental politics; business-government relations; corruption.
Short CV
Education
2023: Doctoral degree (PhD), University of Bremen. Dissertation title: ”Papers on the Political Economy of Authoritarianism”
2010-2013: Master of Arts, Roads to Democracy(-ies), University of Siegen, Germany/ University of Coimbra, Portugal
2004-2009: Diploma (with honours), Area Studies, minor in German and English, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
Professional experience
Since 2023: Research fellow, Research project ”Hydrogen for Bremen’s Industrial Transformation”, University of Bremen
2019 – 2023: Doctoral researcher, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen
2014-2019: Project manager/Research assistant, International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia
Publications
"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan and Grigory Yakovlev). 2023. Russian Politics 8(3): 305-330
“Authoritarian durability, prospects of change and individual behaviour: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia” (with Yulia Khalikova, Michael Rochlitz and Koen Schoors). 2023. Working paper 2023/1061, Department of Economics, Ghent University
"The Political Economy of Waste Management in Russia" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. Russian Analytical Digest 285: 13-15
"Die politische Ökonomie der Abfallwirtschaft in Russland" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. Russland-Analysen 421: 23-26
"Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" (with Ekaterina Paustyan). 2022. IERP Discussion paper 2206
"The Putin Paradox, by Richard Sakwa". 2021. Europe-Asia Studies 73(4): 766-767 (book review)
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