Ekaterina Schulmann

Ekaterina Schulmann is a political scientist specializing in the decision-making and bureaucratic behaviour of modern authoritarian regimes with a particular emphasis on Russia. Prior to joining Carnegie, Schulmann was a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. Before 2022, she was an associate professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) and a senior lecturer at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) and head of its Center for Legislative Studies. From December 2018 to October 2019, Schulmann was a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. She previously worked as a civil servant in local administration, as well as a parliamentary deputy’s aide, political faction analyst, and expert in the analytical department of the Russian State Duma. Schulmann is the author of the books ‘Legislation as a Political Process’ and ‘Practical Political Science: A Guide to Contact with Reality’. She is also one of the co-authors of ‘The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia’. Schulmann’s YouTube channel, which has over one million subscribers, is one of the most closely-followed online sources of insight and analysis for Russian-speaking audiences on the internet. Since 2017, she has hosted Status, a popular weekly online programme. Following the closure of Moscow-based independent radio station Ekho Moskvy in early 2022, the programme has continued thanks to a collaboration involving the Russian platform of Bild, the German media organization, and Zhivoy Gvozd’, the successor to Ekho Moskvy.