Biography
Ivan Fomin teaches at the Boris Nemtsov Program in Russian Studies and is a director of the Ideas for Russia initiative. His research focuses on how authoritarian, nationalist, and statist ideologies inform the foreign and security policies of non-democratic regimes and contribute to their resilience (drawing on multimodal discourse analyses of Putin’s Russia). He holds a Candidate of Sciences degree in Political Science and was a fellow at George Washington University and Ruhr University Bochum and a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University SAIS.
He participated in research projects at INION RAN Center for Advanced Methods, Jagiellonian University, and Nicolaus Copernicus University. He also worked at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow but left Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. His publications have appeared in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, European Journal of International Relations, International Theory, and Semiotica.