Timur Atnashev witnessed the dismantling of the ‘Iron Felix’ on Moscow’s Lubjanka square in 1991. Since then, he has graduated from Moscow State University Lomonosoff (MGU, Sociology) and the College Universitaire Francais de Moscou (CUF, Political Sociology). On a scholarship awarded by the French Government, he studied at the Institute d’Etude Politics (IEP, Sciences-Po de Paris). Subsequently he was awarded a PhD scholarship at the European University Institute, Florence (EUI, History and Civilisation).
Timur has researched the history of perestroika and the consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union for the CIS and the Baltic states. Of particular interest are language, state bureaucracy, and nationalism in the context of the emergence of new political idioms in the USSR and Russia.
Timur is currently a lecturer in political history at the Academy of National Economics, Moscow. He is a co-founder of AEGEE antenna in Moscow (Association of Pro-European Students).

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