Kristin Fjæstad
Junior Research FellowKristin Fjæstad works as a research fellow in the research group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic. Since 2013, she is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews.
Fjæstad’s PhD project is about Kazakhstan's transition from a recipient to a donor of development aid and the establishment of a Kazakhstani aid agency, KazAid. Fjæstad also works with Nupi's cooperation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she has previously worked as a teaching and research fellow. Her main research areas are development aid, democratisation and state-building in the former Soviet Union, primarily Central Asia.
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: NUPI Working Paper
The Russian political system in transition: Scenarios for power transfer
2018In the aftermath of the March 2018 presidential elections, the Russian political system is preparing for – indeed, already entering – the next phase of its development: the transition of power. This inevitable, but still unmentionable, transition is the topic of topics in the minds of Russia’s political... -
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Cooperation between the OSCE Academy and NUPI
2017 - 2019 (Ongoing)The project consists of a wide range of activities including capacity-building of the OSCE Academy as a regional meeting point for research and education, support for two MA programmes in Politics and Security and Economic Governance and Development and research activities.
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: ARTIKKEL
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: ARTIKKEL
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: EUCAM : European National Policies Series
Norway and Central Asia
This policy brief provides an overview of relations between Central Asia and Norway, and is part of the EU-CAM National Policies Series. -
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: NUPI Policy Brief
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: LEDER
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: Rapport/avhandling
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: ARTIKKEL