Lilia Shevtsova

Lilia Shevtsova is a Kremlinology expert and currently serves as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Biography
Shevtsova received B.A. and M.A. in history and journalism from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1971. She also received Ph.D. in political science from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the highest educational establishment of the CPSU, which prepared theoretical workers for Party institutions) in 1976. She served as director of the Center for Political Studies in Moscow, and as deputy director of the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies.

Influence
In the 2008 Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll she was ranked 36. She writes for Foreign Policy magazine. Her areas of expertise include: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caspian, Chechnya, Eastern Europe, Georgia, Kosovo, Political reform, Russia, Caucasus,  Politics of Russia, and Ukraine.