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Dr Vera Michlin-Shapir is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s Russia Institute, King's College London, and Director of Education at the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications. Her expertise focuses on Russian foreign and defence policies, state-backed influence activities, and strategic communications in the digital age. She holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University, where her dissertation explored globalisation's impact on Russian national identity.
Previously, she served as a lecturer in strategic communications, a research fellow at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (2016-2020), and worked at the National Security Council in Israel's Prime Minister's Office (2010-2015). Her research bridges academic analysis with policy-relevant insights into Russian military-political involvement in the Middle East and information warfare tactics.
Publications include Fluid Russia (2021) analyzing post-Soviet identity dynamics, and contributions to NATO Strategic Communications analyses. Her forthcoming work Deciphering the Russian Enigma (Palgrave Macmillan) provides critical insights into contemporary Russian strategic behavior.
