Teaching

Across my career, I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in English and Russian in International Relations and Russian/Post-Soviet Studies. In recent years, I have increasingly used interactive animated diagrams and AI-generated illustrations to explain concepts, structures, and causal relationships—aiming, where possible, to replace dense textual explanations with visual representations. These visualizations provide a practical starting point for in-class discussion. Developing such materials is time-intensive, so this work is being expanded gradually across courses.


  • International relations theories
  • International security
  • European integration and the European Union
  • Russian politics and society
  • History of International Relations (in Russian)
  • Global Politics of Energy
  • Russian History (seminar series)
  • Border Studies in an Asian Context
  • 20+ undergraduate and graduate courses
    (International Relations and Area Studies)


In 2005–2008, four dissertations for the Candidate of Historical Sciences degree (PhD equivalent) were successfully defended under my supervision at Volgograd State University (Volgograd, Russia).

In 2015, a Master’s thesis in Political Science was successfully defended under my supervision at Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan).

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