participants
By introducing the participants, we are supporting the spirit of exchange that underpins the event. It is intended to promote intensive, bilateral and forward-looking professional exchange, whilst at the same time counteracting tendencies that hinder the transfer of culture and knowledge.
Dr Anna Akopova
Dr Anna Akopova teaches foreign languages at the Moscow Technical University of Civil Aviation.
Dr Polina Astashkina
Dr Polina Astashkina is interested in linguistic markers of identity, national identity in Russia and Germany, interculturality and media linguistics.
Dr Vladimir Barbaschov
Dr Vladimir Barbaschov is interested in media linguistics, intercultural communication and the cultural studies of German-speaking countries.
Dr Elena Bazalina
Dr Elena Bazalina conducts research in the field of comparative linguistics, organises academic exchange programmes and compiles terminological dictionaries.
Viktoria Bereziuk
Viktoria Bereziuk conducts research for articles in Russian and international media and advises Deloitte on tax matters.
Dr Valentina Chechetka
Dr Valentina Chechetka is interested in Old Germanic heroic poems and didactics.
Evgeniya Chernysheva
Evgeniya Chernysheva is interested in intercultural communication and teaches German and Russian as foreign languages.
Dr Bella Gartwig
Dr Bella Gartwig has been researching the culture and history of the Russian Germans for over twenty years.
Vincent de Bruin
Vincent de Bruin is studying Russian Studies (Master’s) at the University of Freiburg.
Evgenija Erentshinova
Evgenija Erentshinova is interested in the pedagogy of foreign language teaching.
Dr Anna Glavan
Dr Anna Glavan’s research interests lie in the fields of German and Khanty dialects from a contrastive perspective, and intercultural communication between Germans and Russians, as well as between Russians and Khanty people.
Maria Hamina
Maria Hamina is interested in the topics of intercultural communication and translation.
Ekaterina Ianovskaia
Ekaterina Ianovskaia is interested in German-Russian relations, the development of bilateral dialogue and intercultural communication.
Dr Olga Iatsevich
Dr Olga Iatsevich’s research focuses on higher education pedagogy, etymology and new philosophical trends.
Prof. Dr. habil. Tatiana Ilarionova
Prof. Dr. habil. Tatiana Ilarionova is a journalist and holds a Doctorate in Philosophy.
Zoya Kosyak
Zoya Kosyak focuses on intercultural collaboration, particularly in the form of study programmes and research partnerships.
Liudmila Kotlyarova
Liudmila Kotlyarova is a correspondent and editor at SNA News, and the writer and producer of the Politküche programme “Kartoffelmus”.
Dr Natalia Kudryavtseva
Dr Natalia Kudryavtseva teaches German and is interested in onomastics, including the names of plants.
Julia Kulik
Julia Kulik is interested in the reasons why German is chosen as a second foreign language in schools.
Altana Lidschiewa
Altana Lidschiewa conducts research into youth culture and its significance in the context of historical, social and cultural changes in the lives of the Kalmyk people in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prof. Dr Zoya Lominina
Prof. Dr Zoya Lominina specialises in the teaching of German as a foreign language.
Prof. Dr Olga Mezenova
Prof. Dr Olga Mezenova is interested in joint research projects in biotechnology, as well as commonalities in culture and history.
Anastasiia Marsheva
Anastasiia Marsheva’s research focuses on cultural exchange between Eastern and Western Europe and German-Russian relations.
Dr Steffen Mehlich
Dr Steffen Mehlich is involved in supporting internationally mobile researchers and strengthening the global Humboldt network.
Dr Julia Nesterjuk
Dr Julia Nesterjuk’s research focuses on communicative-strategic behaviour, interculturality and group dynamics.
Erzhena Nimaeva
Erzhena Nimaeva is interested in how the speech of multilingual people is organised syntactically.
Prof. Dr Olga Nosova
Prof. Dr Olga Nosova is interested in international economics, econometrics and institutional economics.
Dr Evgeny Plisov (Habil.)
Dr Evgeny Plisov (Habil.) is conducting research into the variation in the German language depending on the speaker’s religious affiliation.
Julia Pogorelova
Julia Pogorelova examines the migration crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany as portrayed in the media.
Elizaveta Rezvaia
Elizaveta Rezvaia is researching the relationships and mutual influences between international political and civil society actors at various levels in the prevention and reduction of violence against sex workers.
Dr Maria Rusyaeva
Dr Maria Rusyaeva wrote her doctoral thesis on the concept of ‘human being/personality’ in Middle High German literary texts, using the *Nibelungenlied* as her case study.
Kseniia Sabanova
Kseniia Sabanova is interested in research topics such as intercultural communication, the construction of identity and the perception of ‘the Other’.
Anna Saprykina
Anna Saprykina is a journalist and works at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS).
Henning Saßenrath
Henning Saßenrath conducts research into Russian politics and the history of ideas.
Dr Olga Satkowskaia
Dr Olga Satkowskaia’s research focuses on modern German vocabulary and the German word-formation system.
Dr Natalia Schestakova
Dr Natalia Schestakova specialises in education and intercultural communication.
Dr Anna Shachina
Dr Anna Shachina is interested in Kant’s influence on the work of leading German and Russian educationalists.
Anastasiia Shepeleva
Anastasiia Shepeleva is researching the construction of discourse in the German media.
Prof. Dr Irina Sizova
Prof. Dr Irina Sizova’s research focuses on the world of work, social inequality and social policy, particularly the changes these have undergone as a result of the pandemic.
Dr Igor Smirnov
Dr Igor Smirnov’s research focuses on the interrelationships and interactions between German and Russian intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dr Nikolai Sokolov
Dr Nikolai Sokolow’s research focuses, amongst other things, on the development, adoption and implementation of government and political administrative decisions, as well as strategic and global management.
Dr Svetlana Stetsenko
Dr Svetlana Stetsenko specialises in urban planning, urban ecology and energy efficiency.
Sagirat Sungurowa
Sagirat Sungurowa is interested in intercultural dialogue, online media, international relations and youth projects.
Dr Irina Ushanova
Dr Irina Ushanova specialises in international education programmes and academic mobility.
Natalia Vito
Natalia Vitol is interested in intercultural communication, bilateral German-Russian dialogue, gender studies, sustainable development, civil society and civic participation.
Julia Yaluner
Julia Yaluner’s research focuses on the development of ECtHR judgments in Russia, comparative law and constitutionalism.
Maria Zavgorodneva
Maria Zavgorodneva’s research focuses on the etymology of metaphors and their integration into language teaching.
Alena Zubareva
Alena Zubareva is a freelance journalist who writes about foreign relations and life in small towns.

