Olga V. Pavlenko

Department
Department of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy

Position
Vice-Rector for Research, Professor of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy at the School of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies

Academic degree
Graduated Magna cum Laude from Moscow State University (major: History of the Southern and Western Slavs) 1990 - Ph.D. ( "The concept of Slavic reciprocity in Russia and Czechia in the 1860s."), at MSU, 2023 - Doctor hab. in History

State awards, honors, recognitions

• Commendation from the head of Staff of the Council of the Federation for a great contribution to the training of qualified specialists
• Title “Honorary Worker of the Education Sector of the“ Russian Federation”
• Commendation from the Head of the Federal Archival Agency for many years of conscientious work and in connection with the 20th anniversary of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists
• Letter of thanks of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin for a great contribution to the preparation and organization of socially significant events at the national level
• Personal letter of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin for an active participation in the preparation and organization of the election of the President of the Russian Federation (05/07/2018)
• Commendation from the Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission for Security

Background

• 1992 - present - RSUH
• 1992 - 2004 - Senior Lecturer, Department of World History, Institute of History and Archives, RSUH
• 2004 - 2013 - Associate Professor, Department of World Politics and International Relations, RSUH
• 2001 - 2016 - Deputy Director for International Affairs at the Institute of History and Archives, RSUH
• 2007 - 2015 - Chair of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies, IAI RSUH
• 2013 - present - Head of the Faculty of Foreign Regional Studies and Foreign Policy, RSUH
• 2015-2016 - Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies, IAI RSUH
• 2016 - 2019 - Vice-Rector for Research
• 2019 - 2024 - First Vice-Rector - Vice-Rector for Research
• 2024 - present - Vice-Rector for Research

Area of expertise

• foreign policy of Russia 1991-2018
• modern international processes in the Transatlantic space (political, sociocultural and economic aspects);
• international relations and foreign policy of Russia in the second half of the 19th - early 20th cent. (Topic: foreign policy - collective identities of European states - nationalism);
• Soviet foreign policy in the Cold War era;
• “Slavic geopolitics” as a political and intellectual project;
• new and current history of Austria;
• Russian-Austrian relations.