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
