Eastern Europe, Eurasia

The Eastern Europe and Eurasia Division explores political structures, social processes and developments in foreign, security and military policy in the post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, in particular Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

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SWP Publications
External publications

Contact

osteuropa.eurasien@swp-berlin.org

Head

Dr. phil. Margarete Klein

Head of Research Division

margarete.klein@swp-berlin.org
phone:+49 30 88007- 256
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Security and defence policy
- Russian Federation
- Defence and security policy / Armed forces
Dr. Franziska Smolnik

Deputy Head of Research Division

franziska.smolnik@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Armenia
- Georgia
- Southern Caucasus
- Civil wars
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Regional and interstate conflicts

Research

Dr. phil. Sabine Fischer

Senior Fellow

sabine.fischer@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Non-state violence
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Russian Federation
- Civil wars
Manfred Huterer

Visiting Fellow

manfred.huterer@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Belarus
- Russian Federation
Dr Janis Kluge

Senior Associate

janis.kluge@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Economics, trade, resources
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Russian Federation
- Population trends
- Trade
Nikolay Petrov

Visiting Fellow

Nikolay.Petrov@swp-berlin.org
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Russian Federation
- Elites and elite change
Dr. phil. Astrid Sahm

Visiting Fellow

astrid.sahm@swp-berlin.org
phone:+49 30 88007- 474
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Democracy promotion
- Energy policy
- Environmental policy
Dr. phil. Andrea Schmitz

Senior Associate

andrea.schmitz@swp-berlin.org
phone:+49 30 88007- 204
Areas of Expertise
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Central Asia
Dr. rer. soc. Susan Stewart

Senior Fellow

susan.stewart@swp-berlin.org
phone:+49 30 88007- 466
Areas of Expertise
- EU, Europe
- Russia, E. Europe, Central Asia
- Russian Federation
- Ukraine
- EU Eastern Partnership

Research Support

Giorgi Tadumadze, M.A.

Research Assistant

giorgi.tadumadze@swp-berlin.org
Melanie Wetzel

Assistant

melanie.wetzel@swp-berlin.org
phone:+49 30 88007- 347
Andrea Grillandi, M.A.

Information Research Specialist and Data Engineer

andrea.grillandi@swp-berlin.org
Mia Magdalena Dietrich

Information and Data Manager

mia.dietrich@swp-berlin.org

SWP Publications

- Franziska Smolnik
Dis/Connectivity in the South Caucasus
- German
Imaginaries, the Effects of Power, Ambivalences

SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 09, 29.08.2023, 34 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023RP09
- Andrea Schmitz
Religious Policy in Uzbekistan
- German
Between Liberalisation, State Ideology and Islamisation

SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 08, 21.08.2023, 31 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023RP08
- Margarete Klein
- Claudia Major
Ensuring Ukraine’s security
- German
From ad hoc support to long-term security guarantees as NATO member

SWP Comment 2023/C 46, 04.08.2023, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023C46
- Sabine Fischer
Russian Federation: No Sustainable Development in Wartime
in:
- Marianne Beisheim (ed.)
Country-level Politics around the SDGs
Contribution to a Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages, pp. 51–55
- Astrid Sahm
Belarus and the 2030 Agenda: Foreign Policy Instrument and Failed Reform Driver
in:
- Marianne Beisheim (ed.)
Country-level Politics around the SDGs
Contribution to a Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages, pp. 19–23
- Marianne Beisheim (ed.)
Country-level Politics around the SDGs

Analysing political will as a critical element of the Mid-Term Review of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs

SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 07, 10.07.2023, 75 Pages

doi:10.18449/2023RP07

External publications

- Margarete Klein
Nach dem rätselhaften Absturz. Prigoschin: Sein Aufstieg, seine Bedeutung, sein Vermächtnis

Interview, in: SRF, 25.08.2023
- Margarete Klein
Prigoschins Absturz: »Klare Warnung von Putin«

Podcast von Sandra Klüber, in: F.A.Z. Podcast für Deutschland, 24.08.2023
- Sabine Fischer
»Putin hat keine Angst vor der Wagner-Gruppe«

Interview von Marietta Slomka, in: ZDF heute journal, 24.08.2023 (Video)
- Andrea Schmitz
Zentralasien – Potenziale und Projektionen

Gastkommentar, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27.07.2023
- Janis Kluge
Moskaus Angst vor der Inflation: »Die Bürger werden ausgebremst, damit Putin beim Militär weiter Vollgas geben kann«

Interview von Benjamin Hirsch, in: Tagesspiegel, 26.07.2023
- Janis Kluge
Über Russlands Aufkündigung des Getreideabkommens

Interview von Ingo Zamperoni, in: tagesthemen, 18.07.2023