email:
ryhor.nizhnikau@fiia.fi
telephone:
+358 9432 7753

Ryhor Nizhnikau is a Senior Research Fellow in Russia, the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Eurasia programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He works on Russia’s and the EU’s policies towards Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, and studies the institutional transformations and political developments in these countries. He received his PhD in Political Science from Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. He was a visiting fellow at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, and a visiting lecturer at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and the University of Helsinki. His publications include EU-Induced Change in Post-Soviet Space: Promoting Reforms in Moldova and Ukraine (Routledge, 2019), and Russian policy towards Belarus after 2020: At a turning point? (Lexington Books, 2023), co-edited with Arkady Moshes.

Expertise

The EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, Russian policy in the post-soviet space, domestic and foreign policies of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine

Degrees

PhD, University of Tartu, 2017

Language skills

Belarusian, Russian and English (working languages), French, Swedish and Ukrainian (receptive skills)

Projects

Invigorating enlargement and neighbourhood policy for a resilient Europe
Multilateral cooperation in an era of strategic competition: Options for influence for Finland and the European Union


Latest FIIA Publications

Expertise

The EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, Russian policy in the post-soviet space, domestic and foreign policies of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine

Degrees

PhD, University of Tartu, 2017

Language skills

Belarusian, Russian and English (working languages), French, Swedish and Ukrainian (receptive skills)

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Moshes, Arkady & Niszhnikau, Ryhor ed(s) (2023). Russian Policy toward Belarus after 2020 At a Turning Point? Lexington books.

C Scientific books (monographs)

Moshes, Arkady & Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2023). Falling into a Trap of the Own Making: Lukashenka’s Foreign Policy since 2020. In Moshes, Arkady; Nizhnikau, Ryhor ed(s): Russian Policy toward Belarus after 2020: At a Turning Point? Lexington books.

A Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2019). Modernisti vanha. Ulkopolitiikka, 56 (4):88.

D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). Kameran takana on oligarkki. Ulkopolitiikka, 3:66-69.

D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor (2017). The Commonwealth of Independent States Region. In Kochenov, Dimitry ed(s): Quality of Nationality Index 2nd Edition. Ideos Verlag AG. 207-211.

Post-Soviet Space Russia D Publications intended for professional communities

Nizhnikau, Ryhor & Alvari, Niko (2016). Ice hockey World Championship in Belarus: Political context. In Andrey Makarychev; Aleksandra Yatsyk ed(s): Mega-events in post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting borderlines of inclusion and exclusion. New York: Palgrave McMillan. 79-97.

EU's Eastern Neighbourhood A Peer-reviewed scientific articles