GERMAN
KIM is doctor, professor, and director
of the Center for Korean Studies of the Kazakh National University. His
main academic interests are related to the historical-demographic
aspects of Korean immigration worldwide and the history of the Korean
diaspora in Russia, the Soviet Union, and postsoviet space. He has
published several monographs and numerous articles in Kazakhstan and
abroad. His most significant books are Ethnic Entrepreneurship of
Koreans in the USSR and Post Soviet Central Asia (Chiba, 2008);
(Area
editor) Korean Diaspora: Central
Asia, Northeast Asia and North America
(New Haven, Connecticut, 2008); История
иммиграции корейцев, Vols 1-3
(Almaty, 2006); Hanin imin yoksa
(Seoul, 2005); and Koryo Saram:
Historiography and Bibliography (Almaty, 2000).
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MAKSIM
KLYMENTIEV is an independent Slavic
scholar from Kyiv, Ukraine and is the author of The First Two Hundred
Years of the Gogol World
(http://life.pravda.com.ua/columns/49c8f376bdc05/).
He holds an MA from
Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNYSB) and an
ABD from USC, Los Angeles. His interests include nineteenth-century
Russian prose, contemporary literary theory, and philosophy.
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LIUDMILA
MISSONOVA, PhD, is a senior research
fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. She is coordinator of the ethnological
encyclopedia serial publication entitled Peoples and Cultures (Narody i
Kul’tury) (Moscow: Nauka, 1997-2008). She is the author of
publications
on ethno-social transformations and ethnic identity among the
indigenous populations of Kerala (South India), Chukotka, Kamchatka,
Evenkia, Iakutia, and Sakhalin (Russia). She is author of the book The
Uilta of the Sakhalin Island: Major Problems of a Northern Minority
(Moscow, 2006). She has conducted field studies on Sakhalin from 1990
to 2009.
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NONAKA
SUSUMU is associate professor of
Russian Literature at Saitama University. His major topics are Andrei
Platonov, Russian Formalism, and Vasily Rozanov. Recently published is
“Категориальная ошибка как стилистический принцип Платонова
(«Котлован»),” Творчество Андрея
Платонова, Vol. 4 (St. Petersburg,
2008).
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PREDRAG
PIPER is professor of Russian Language,
Slavistics, and Linguistic Methodology at the School of Philology,
University of Belgrade. He is also a corresponding member of Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA). His recent books are Увод у
славистику 1 (Beograd, 1998); Српски
између великих и малих језика
(Beograd, 2003); “Српски jезик,” Jужнословенски
jезици (Beograd, 2009);
and Трагом речи (Beograd,
2009).
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ANATOLY
REMNEV is professor of the Chair of
Russian Pre-revolutionary History, Omsk State University. His recent
subject of research is the history of administration of the Russian
Empire in the XIX – early XX centuries. His recent publications are Россия Дальнего Востока:
Имперская география власти XIX – начала XX
веков (Omsk, 2004); and “«Русское дело» на азиатских окраинах:
«русскость» под угрозой или «сомнительные культуртрегеры»,” Ab Imperio
2 (2008) (with N.G. Suvorova).
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ANDREAS
RENNER is private docent at the
University of Cologne and an expert on the social history of ideas in
Russia. He has recently completed a book on the Transfer of European
Medicine to 18th-century Russia (to be published in 2010). His
latest
research focuses on Russian images of Japan in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.
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MIKHAIL SHKAROVSKIY is doctor of
Historical Sciences, professor, and leading researcher of the Central
State Archives in Saint Petersburg. His most recent important
publications are Die Kirchenpolitik
des Dritten Reiches gegenüber den
orthodoxen Kirchen in Osteuropa (1939-1945) (Münster, 2004); La croce e
il potere. La Chiesa russa sotto Stalin e Chruščëv (Bergamo,
2003); and Russian Orthodox Church
at
Stalin and Khrushchov (Moscow, 2000) (in
Russian).
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GULMIRA SULTANGALIEVA is
professor of History in Al-Farabi Kazakh
National University (KazNU). Her research interests are comparative
analysis of tsarist policies in the Kazakhstan and Volga-Ural region
and
the role of the Tatar mullahs, translators in the Kazakh steppe
(XVIII-XX c.). Her current publications are “Synchronism of the Policy
of the Russian Empire towards the Turkic Peoples of the South Urals and
Western Kazakhstan, 18th -- First Half of the 19th Century,” Roshiashi
Kenkyu (2008); and “Karatolmach, Junior -- Captain Mohammed-Sharif
Aitov
in the Kazakh Steppe (First Half of XIX c.),” Panorama Evrasii (2008).
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