Marat Iliyasov

Marat Iliyasov is a graduate of Vilnius University, where he obtained his MA in Diplomacy and IR. His second MA comes from Ilia State University, and he holds PhD from the School of IR of the University of St Andrews (Scotland). His current work comes to the crossroad of several disciplines, among which are: International Relations, Ethnography, and Political Demography. Dr Iliyasov is an author of several publications that analyse migrants’ identity evolution, the demographic trends in the conflict and post-conflict societies, self-legitimation of authoritarian governments, and politics of memory in autocracies.