Hans-Joachim Spanger holds a doctorate in political science, is programme director at the Leibniz Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (HSFK) and visiting professor at the National Research University – University of Economics in Moscow. For the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI), he wrote the regional report on post-Soviet Eurasia.
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Vladimir Putin in Volgograd. Photo by www.kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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