Andrei Ryabov is a member of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Research Council and chair of the Center’s East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program. He is also the chief editor of the journal World Economy and International Relations and a leading researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

From 1993 to 2002, Ryabov served as deputy director of the Center for Political Science Programs at the Gorbachev Foundation. In addition, he was a political columnist for the newspaper Vek from 1998 to 2002, and was deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Vestnik of the Moscow University (Political Science series). From 1993 to 1996, he was deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Centaur. Ryabov has also worked as a senior researcher at the Department of Modern Russian Political Process at the Moscow State University and at the Center for International Programs at the Russian Independent Institute of Social and National Problems, and as an associate professor in the Sociology Department at the Moscow Mining Institute.

Ryabov is the author of Originality Instead of Modernization: Paradoxes of Russian Politics in the Post-Stabilization Era (Carnegie Moscow Center, 2005), and co-author of some other books on post-communist Russia. He is a corresponding member of the International Informatization Academy and a member of the Russian Political Science Association.

Education

Ph.D., history, Moscow State History and Archives Institute M.A., political history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Moscow State History and Archives Institute

Languages

English; Russian

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Foreign Policy, Russia, Russian, Counterterrorism,