Vassily Klimentov

Vassily Klimentov obtained his PhD in International History, with a minor in Political Science, from the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2020. Thanks to grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he has then worked for three years at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He has obtained two more individual grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, including the Ambizione grant, to conduct research at the University of Zurich starting in 2024. He is currently working on two research projects, respectively titled: ‘Islam and the Making of Modern Russia: Moscow and the Muslim World’ and ‘A War Without End? The Legacy of the Cold War in Russia’.