NINA L. Khrushcheva AVAILABLE FOR EXPERT COMMENTARY ON SOCHI OLYMPICS

Leading International Voice on Contemporary Russian Politics

Ahead of the Friday, February 7 Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, leading scholar of contemporary Russian politics and history Nina L. Khrushcheva is available for interviews and commentary on the political, economic, and social controversies surrounding the games.

Nina L. Khrushcheva is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School and senior fellow of the World Policy Institute. Her articles and commentary have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Al Jazeera America, CBS News, NPR and other outlets. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, a book about her grandfather, Soviet premiere Nikita Khrushchev, forthcoming this year from Tate.

Professor Khrushcheva received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, following which, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Professor Khrushcheva can be reached via email at [email protected]; or by contacting Sam Biederman, Director of Communications for The New School, at [email protected] or 773-505-5929.

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