Leading Research Fellow, Yuri Levada Analytical Centre 2012-2014 Lecturer at the Higher School of Economics 2009-2013 Lecturer at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 1996-2007; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences 1992-1999 Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences 1985-1992 Junior Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences - 1977-1985

Visiting Professor: Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland,(Peter Heinz visiting professorship supported by the World Society Foundation, Switzerland) April   June 2001 The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, USA, March -June 2000 Institute of International Relations, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April -May 1994 FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) Argentina, October 1993 Institute of International Relations of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October-November 1993. Institute of Economic and Social History Investigations, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, October-November 1993.

Current research interests and expertise Comparative research in: - Social and political problems of Latin America and Russia; - State-society relations in Latin America and Russia.