Dr. Anton Shekhovtsov obtained his doctoral degree from University College London (UK). He is Director of the NGO Centre for Democratic Integrity, Visiting Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Central European University (Austria), and an Associated Researcher at the Research Centre for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna. He is the author of New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies (ibidem, 2011) and Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (Routledge, 2017). He also published numerous op-eds in international media, and several academic articles in Journal of Democracy, Russian Politics and Law, Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, and Patterns of Prejudice, among others.
