Education: 1993-1998 Moscow State University, Historical faculty, Department of Ancient world. 1993-1998
Postgraduate: Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, PhD on “Theology and social activity of Pentecostal movement in Russia”. 2001-2005
Candidate dissertation: 2005. Title: The Theology and social activity of Pentecostals.
Doctoral dissertation: 2018. Title: The role of the Christian Churches in the resolution of the social and political crisises
Position: Chief researcher, Department of social and political studies, Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe, head of the Center for the studies of problems of Religion and Society.
Professional activities: 1998-2001 A member of Russian team of Keston Institute (Oxford, UK, president – Xenia Dennen). Moscow representative of Keston Institute in Moscow, correspondent of Keston News Service and magazine “Frontier”, author of more than 100 articles.
1998 – 2022. A research fellow of the scientific project of Keston Institute “Encyclopedia of religious life in Russia Today” (editors – Fr Michael Bourdeaux and Dr Sergei Filatov).
2005 – present time Senior researcher of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, member of research Centre for problems of religion and society, editor-in-chief of magazine “Contemporary Europe”, http://www.sov-europe.ru/
Scope of scientific interests: Social policy, social and cultural transformations, social models, identity, problems of civil society and human rights, sociology of religion, field research of religion, church-state relations, interreligious conflicts, Christian churches and society,
Protestantism, new religious movements.
Total number of publications: • Elibrary.ru: SPIN-код: 5644-2596, AuthorID: 371428 • Publications in Elibrary.ru: 404 • Citations in Elibrary.ru: 1641 • Index Hirsch: 20
Membership in scientific associations: Member of the Association of European studies
Member of Board in the magazines “Middle and Post-Soviet East”, "Religion and Law", "Religion, state and society in Russia and abroad", Journal of Russian Studies.