Former Director, State Archives of the Russian Federation; Professor, Chair of Russia's history of XIX - early XX century, History Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Geographer, Director of the French-Russian Research Center in Moscow, author of the Atlas gйopolitique du Caucase (in French), Edition Autrement, Paris 2010
Professor, Chair, Department of Theory of Politics, Deputy Dean for International Activities, School of International Studies, University of Nizhniy Novgorod