Biography

Olena Snigyr is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Till May, 2022, she was responsible for communication and international cooperation of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, where she continues to coordinate the project of the Virtual Museum of Russian Aggression

From 2001 to 2017 Olena has been working at the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine (NISS). Headed the Foreign Policy Department in NISS in 2008-2011 and the Sector of Europe in the Foreign Policy Department in 2011-2013. In 2015-2017 she was a chief consultant in the Research Center for Russian Federation Problems in NISS. Later in 2018-2019 she worked as a leading specialist in the Center for International Studies at Hennadiy Udovenko Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine.

Her most recent publications include analysis of Russia’s foreign policy, specifically its interventionism and undisclosed methods of influence, the role of historical memory in Russian foreign policy, security issues in Europe, the latest developments in Ukrainian foreign policy, and perspectives on the development of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Fields of expertise: Russian foreign policy, Russian policy of historical memory, Ukrainian foreign policy, European Security, Black Sea Region.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Eastern Europe as Laboratory of Change
• Transnational Democracy in the 21st century

Recent research output

• SNIGYR, Olena (2023), Russian strategic narratives, 2022–2023, Article