Helge Blakkisrud

Senior Research Fellow (part time)

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Helge Blakkisrud’s main research interests include Russian federalism and centre–region relations, in particular, the development of the institution of governors. Research interests also include Russia's High North/Arctic policy, nationality policy and Russian nationalism, as well as processes of state-building and nation-building in Eurasia, especially in Eurasian de facto states.

Blakkisrud is editor of Nordisk Østforum, a Nordic peer-reviewed journal for Russian and East European studies. 

He has been a guest lecturer at the OSCE Academy, Bishkek, since 2008. In 2009–2010, he was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley.


Education

1996- PhD-programme (Political Science), University of Oslo

1995 Cand.Polit. (Political Science) from University of Oslo. Dissertation: De russiske minoritetene i Estland og Latvia. Minoriteters responsstrategier ved endrede rammebetingelser

Work Experience

1995 Senior Research Fellow/Head of Research Group on Russia, Asia and International Trade, NUPI

2018- Part time position, Norwegian University Centre, St Petersburg

1995- OSCE Election Observer (various elections in Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina)

1994- Editor in Chief, Nordisk Østforum (Nordic Journal of East European and Post-Soviet Studies

1994 Member of the CSSE Mission in Latvia. Leader of the Mission's mobile team

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