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Professional Affiliation

Political Scientist, Historian, and Journalist

Expert Bio

Susanne Spahn (PhD) is a political scientist, historian and journalist based in Berlin. She completed her M.A. degree in East European history, Slavonic studies and political science in St. Petersburg and Cologne. In 2011, she received her doctoral degree with a thesis, published as a book, on Staatliche Unabh盲ngigkeit 鈥� das Ende der ostslawischen Gemeinschaft? Die Au脽enpolitik Russlands gegen眉ber der Ukraine und Belarus seit 1991. Hamburg 2011(State Independence: The End of the East Slavonic Unity? Russia鈥檚 Foreign Policy towards Ukraine and Belarus Since 1991). In 2010 and 2011, working in Moscow, she was a contributor to Dow Jones News, Die Welt, Deutsche Welle, Zeit online and Magazin Au脽enwirtschaft. Her research interests are Russia鈥檚 foreign policy in the post-Soviet area, Russian information policy and the Russian-speaking community in Germany.

Spahn鈥檚 works include three research reports on Russian media in Germany. The latest study on Russische Medien in Deutschland: Wie der russische Informationskrieg und Desinformation Einfluss auf Deutschland aus眉ben [The Russian Media in Germany: How the Russian Information War and Disinformation Influence Germany] (Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, October 2020) was also published in Russian and English.