Rafael Sattarov

a graduate of the bachelor’s programme of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent) and master’s programme of the National Research University of Higher School of Economics, Moscow. A columnist of several periodicals in Russia and Kazakstan. Areas of expertise: issues of social and economic reforms in post-Soviet countries, issues of authoritarianism in CIS, Russian-American relations after the cold war, American politics in Central Asia.