Aleksandra Rumiantseva

Visiting Scholar
Hans-Koschnick Special Scholarship

E-Mail: alerumyan@gmail.com

Current project: Protest activity and repression on Navalny supporters in Russia
 

Research areas

• Repression

• Protest activity in Russia

• Electoral processes in authoritarian regimes (especially Russia)
   

Short biography:

Education
 

MA, Sociology, High School of Economics (Saint-Petersburg), 2019

MA, Political Science, European University at Saint-Petersburg, 2020

BA, Sociology, Russian State Social University (Moscow), 2017

Work experience

Long-term Visiting Scholar, Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen (2022-present)

Center for Advanced Governance (think-tank) Moscow, Russia (2019 - 2022)

Position: Expert

Completed projects 2019 - 2022

• Kazantcev K., Rumiantseva A. Availability of primary health care in Russia: an evaluation model on the pre-pandemic data / Center for Advanced Governance, Moscow, 2022.
   

• Kazantcev K., Rumiantseva A. From election to appointment. Consequences of the municipal management reform in Russia / ed, by Komin M.; Center for Advanced Governance, Moscow, 2021.

University College London (UCL) London, Great Britain

Research Assistant, UKRI funded 2021 - now

Iron Fists in Velvet Gloves. Nonviolent Repression in Electoral Autocracies, PI: Katerina Tertytchnaya


Teaching experience

European University in Saint-Petersburg Saint-Petersburg, Russia

• Course: Intermediate Quantitative Analyses (2019, 2020, 2021)
  Lecture: Margarita Zavadskaya
  Program: Political Science Department
   

• Introduction to Python (2021, 2022)
  Lecture: Ivan Bibilov
  Program: Applied Data Analyses
   

• Introduction to R (2021)
  Lecture: Dmitriy Serebrennikov
  Program: Applied Data Analyses
   

• R Open Courses (2018 – 2022)
  Position: lecture

Conferences & Workshops & Seminars

2022

• ASEEES, Chicago (November 2022)
  Premature Dismissals of Regional Governors, Protests, and Political Regime Dynamics in Russia: Evidence from 2013-2018 (accepted)
   

• Workshop: Russian Politics and Subnational Variation, Uppsala (September 2022)
  Roots of Electoral Success of the Communists in 2021 (accepted)
   

• APSA Annual Meeting Exhibition, Montréal (September 2022)
  Cooptation Protests: Evidence from Russian Protests against the Pension Reform (accepted)
   

• EPSA Annual Meeting Exhibition, Prague (June 2022)
  When Authoritarian Media Cover Foreign Protest (accepted)
   

• CSEEES, Chapel Hill (May 2022)
  Local authorities’ strategies and reaction to the Navalny protest waves in the 2017 - 2018 years in Russia
   

• Workshop: Governmental elections in Russia - 2021: results and consequences, HSE SPb (January, 2022)
  Rumiantseva A., Zavadskaya M. The Party of People’s Distrust: The Roots of Electoral Success of the Communists in 2021

2021

• 30 year’s of electoral politics in Russia, Perm State University (December, 2021)
  Minaeva E., Rumiantseva A., Zavadskaya M. ”From Elections to Appointments: Does Centralization Strengthen Political Support”

Publications

• Rumiantseva A. and Zavadskaya M. The Party of People’s Distrust: The Roots of Electoral Success of the Communists in 2021. Forthcoming in Russian Politics
   

• Rumiantseva A., 2021. Protest-Event Dataset: The Pension Protest Wave in Russia (2018). Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4I1JYD