Associate Professor of the General Politics Department at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Senior Fellow at the Laboratory for Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks Monitoring (National Research University Higher School of Economics). He is an author of more than 60 scientific publications, including the monographs Political System of Modern Russia (Moscow: HSE, 2004б in Russian) and New Wave of the Democratisation? (Moscow: HSE, 2011, in Russian).