Home » Our faculty » Faculty » Bolgova Irina Irina Bolgova Education MGIMO University, Russia 2002-2005 Ph.D., History Dissertation title: «European Union politics towards South Caucasus and Central Asia» MGIMO University, Russia M.Sc., International Relations 2000-2002 Moscow State University Lomonossov B.Sc., History 1995-2000 Academic / Teaching Experience Associate Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Russia, 2006 to Present Teach Contemporary International Relations, Russian Foreign Policy Research Fellow Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO-University, Moscow, Russia, 2006 to Present Research and Teaching Interests International relations Post-soviet space Russia — EU relations Grants and Awards Research grant on «The Relations between the Russian Federation and the European Union», Chair Interbrew-Baillet Latour, Institut d’études européennes, UCL. Brussels, Belgium. (January — December 2004) Courses Taught Russia in global politics Foundations of Russian Foreign Policy Russian energy diplomacy Global trends and transformations Languages Russian (native) English (proficient) French (proficient) Publications Bolgova I. European Union politics towards South Caucasus and Central Asia: Origins and Development (2008) (in Russian) Bolgova I. Normative vs pragmatic interest: EU policies in Central Asia // RISA’s Outlook. — 2010/2011. Spetschinsky L., Bolgova I. V. Post-Soviet or Post-Colonial? The relations between Russia and Georgia after 1991 //ERIS-European Review of International Studies. — 2014. — Т. 1. — №. 3 Istomin I., Bolgova I. Transnistrian strategy in the context of Russian—Ukrainian relations: the rise and failure of ‘dual alignment’ //Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. — 2016. — Т. 16. — №. 1. — P. 169-194 Priorities of Russian Foreign Policy Russian Foreign Policy Facebook Twitter Vk