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Professional Experience:
- Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO), 2000- present
- Senior Associate, Institute of Oriental Studies RAN (Russian Academy of Sciences), 1999-2001
- Head of Islamic Department, Institute of Oriental Studies RAN, 1986-1999
- Visiting Professor, Colgate University (USA), 1990
- Editor, journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism", 1982-1986
- Scholar-in-Residence, Institute of Oriental Studies, 1976-1982
- Advisor, RAN expedition (Libya), 1979-1980
- Military service (Algeria), 1974-1976
- Language practice (Egypt, Turkmenistan), 1972
Selected Publications:
Author / Co-author:
- Russia's Restless Frontier: The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia (with Alexei Malashenko and Anatole Lieven), Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2004. – 265 pp.
- Islamic Factor in the Northern Caucasus, Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, 2001
- The Muslim Community of the CIS, Moscow, 1996 (Arabic translation, 1999)
- Islam in Central Asia, Great Britain With L. Polonskaya , Garnet Publishing, 1994 (eng.)
- The Last Red August, New York, 1993 (eng.)
- The Search for Alternatives: Arab Concepts of Methods for Development, Nauka, Moscow, 1991
- The Soviet Union and the Muslim Nations With L. Polonskaya , New-Delhi, 1988
- Three Cities in Northern Africa, Nauka, Moscow, 1986
- The Official Ideology of Modern Algeria, Nauka, Moscow, 1982
Education
- Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University
- Postdoctoral Degree in Political Science, 1995
- Ph.D. in History, 1978
- Diploma in History, 1974