Background
He was born on December 6, 1948, in Kiev, Ukraine.
political scientist teacher doctor of political sciences
He was born on December 6, 1948, in Kiev, Ukraine.
He graduated from the Faculty of History of the Voronezh State University (1974).
Since 1976, he has been engaged in the problems of sociology at various Moscow research institutes.
In 1987-1991 he was the head of the Sociology Sector of the Central Research Institute for Urban Planning in Moscow.
In 1991-1994, director of the Center for Ethnological and Regional Studies.
In 1996-1999 he was an adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on national issues.
Since 1999, he has been the head of the Center for Xenophobia Research and the Prevention of Extremism at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the same time Director-General of the Center for Ethnological and Regional Studies, Professor at the Department of Comparative Political Science of the Higher School of Economics.
He is interested in ethnic political science, the problems of interethnic conflicts, the formation of nations, ethnic and cultural features of the modernization processes.