The Russian profile was first prepared by Kirill Razlogov. The profile was updated by Tatiana Fedorova from 2001-2009 and by Tatiana Fedorova and Nina Kochelyaeva from 2010-2013.

Tatiana Romashko is a grant researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Since 2010, Tatiana had served as a senior lecturer at various universities of St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2017-2018, she was teaching in the Master Program of Cultural policy at the University of Jyväskylä. Currently, she is contributing to teaching at Tampere University, Helsinki University and the University of Jyväskylä.

Tatiana’s research interests encompass Russian politics, cultural policy, Finnish-Russian cross-border cooperation, governmentality, and post-structural discourse theory. For the last seven years, Tatiana Romashko was a grantee of the Kone Foundation (Koneen Säätiö) and the University of Jyväskylä, as well as, the Herzen University and the Committee of High Education and Science in St. Petersburg, Russia. During 2023-2026, Tatian Romashko will be a member of a research team working on project “Russian World” Next Door: discourses of the Russian political communication and cultural diplomacy in Finland. This 3-year project obtained financial support from the Kone Foundation in 2021.

At present, Tatiana is finishing her doctoral thesis, which is devoted to the emergence of the State cultural policy in modern Russia. Some findings of her doctoral dissertation are presented in recent journal articles and book chapters. More on that you may find by this link: https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/staff/romashko-tatiana

Olga Zabalueva is an associate professor in Museology at Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umeå university, Sweden, and teaches in Branch Programme for Museums and Heritage Studies.

Olga has an MA in Museology from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow and an MA in Applied Cultural Analysis from Lund University, Sweden. As a museum professional she has more than 10 years of working experience in different cultural institutions in Moscow and in Sweden at research and collection departments.

Olga did her PhD in Culture and Society at Linköping university, Sweden, in 2023 with the focus on the use of politics in the process of museum making (and unmaking); framing of “difficult issues” which cultural institutions are dealing with in both the global and the Swedish museum context; and constituting socially relevant and sustainable museum practices based on agonistic memory framework and museum activism. Olga’s research focuses on the uses (and abuses) of heritage, museum politics, cultural memory, museum activism and finding cross-sections in-between these areas. She has a specific interest for memory, politics, and heritage in the post-Soviet space; decolonial museology; the working conditions of museum professionals, and, as of recently, the relation between new materialisms and digital realm in museum collections.

Olga is a member of International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Memory Studies Association (MSA).

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