Ekaterina Sokirianskaia
- Research field security, conflict, war crimes, radicalisation and de-radicalisation of violent Jihadists in Russia
- Institution International Crisis Group
- Position Russia Project Director
- Theme De-radicalization
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Biography
Ekaterina Sokirianskaia is International Crisis Group’s Russia & North Caucasus Project Director, responsible for the organisation’s research and advocacy in the region. She has 17 years of experience in fieldwork and policy research in/on the North Caucasus, including five years based on the ground in Ingushetia and Chechnya. Ekaterina holds a Ph.D. in political science from Central European University and is the author of numerous publications on conflict, human rights, jihadism, terrorism and security in the North Caucasus and Russia.
Publications
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Getting Back Home? Towards Sustainable Return of Ingush Forced Migrants and Lasting Peace in Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.” Policy Analyses. International Policy Fellowships. Budapest: Central european university, center for policy studies; Open society institute, 2006.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. Crying Sun: The Impact of War in the Mountains of Chechnya = Плачущее Солнце: Последствия Войны в Горах Чечни. Documentary, Short, 2007.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. Missing Lives: Disappearances and Impunity in the North Caucasus. Documentary, Short, War, 2007.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Winter Games, Caucasian Misery.” The New York Times, December 5, 2013, sec. The Opinion Pages.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Вы будете разочарованы!” Crisis Group, August 7, 2015.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “О рассерженной молодежи на улице Котрова.” Crisis Group, November 30, 2015.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “To the Islamic State and Back.” Crisis Group, December 1, 2015.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “«Пятизвездный джихад».” Новая газета - Novayagazeta.ru, April 5, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Абу Мясо. Так в ИГИЛ прозвали чеченского командира, отправляющего своих бойцов на смерть.” Crisis Group, May 11, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Роковая невеста джихада.” Crisis Group, May 19, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Mujeres en el Cáucaso Norte: una situación dramática e ignorada.” Esglobal (blog), June 23, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Pogrom.” The New York Times, May 3, 2017, sec. The Opinion Pages.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina, יקטרינה סוקיריאנסקאיה, and רומן וטר. “Ideology and War: Political Nationalism in Chechnya / אידאולוגיה ומלחמה: הלאומיות הפוליטית בצ’צ’ניה.” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly / זמנים: רבעון להיסטוריה, no. 107 (2009): 80–93.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina, יקטרינה סוקיריאנסקאיה, and רומן וטר. “Ideology and War: Political Nationalism in Chechnya / אידאולוגיה ומלחמה: הלאומיות הפוליטית בצ’צ’ניה.” zmanim Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly / זמנים: רבעון להיסטוריה, no. 107 (2009): 80–93.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Families and Clans in Ingushetia and Chechnya. A Fieldwork Report.” Central Asian Survey 24, no. 4 (2005): 453–67.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Vladimir Putin Has One Reliable Set of Allies: Russia’s Iron Ladies.” The Guardian, March 22, 2017, sec. Opinion.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “A Chill Wind in the Caucasus.” New York Times. December 7, 2013.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Turning Chechnya’s Precarious Stability into Peace.” International Crisis Group - Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, July 2, 2015.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Sowing Rebellion in Dagestan?” International Crisis Group - Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, August 26, 2013.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Russia’s North Caucasus Insurgency Widens as ISIS’ Foothold Grows.” World Politics Review, April 12, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “El pogrom contra els homosexuals de Txetxènia.” ara.cat, May 5, 2017.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “The Struggle with Islamic State That Turkey Hoped to Avoid.” International Crisis Group - Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (blog), July 4, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Women in the North Caucasus Conflicts: An under-Reported Plight.” New Eastern Europe, June 10, 2016.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Modern Nation-Building in the Northern Caucasus : Ingushetia 1992-2004.” In Nationalisms across the Globe: An Overview of Nationalisms in State-Endowed and Stateless Nations. The World. Vol. 2, edited by Wojciech J. Burszta and Tomasz Kamusella, 469. Poznań: School of Humanities and Journalism, 2006.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina, and О. П Орлов. “Новый курс” Магомедова?: причины гражданского противостояния, ситуация с правами человека и попытки консолидации общества в Республике Дагестан, март 2010 года--март 2011 года, 2012.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Is Chechnya Taking Over Russia?” International New York Times. August 17, 2017.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Forced Migration in the Northern Caucasus: Involving Local Stakeholders in the Process of Returning Ingush IDPs.” Policy Analyses. International Policy Fellowships. Budapest: Central european university, center for policy studies; Open society institute, 2005.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “State and Violence in Chechnya (1997–1999).” In Chechnya at War and Beyond, edited by Amandine Regamey, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, and Anne Le Huérou, 93–117. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series 56. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2014.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Governing Fragmented Societies: State-Building and Political Integration in Chechnya and Ingushetia (1991-2009).” Central Europe University, 2010.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Ideology and Conflict: Chechen Political Nationalism Prior to and During, Ten Years of War.” In Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus : Post-Soviet Disorder, edited by Moshe Gammer, 102–38. London: Routledge, 2010.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “State-Building and Political Integration in Ingushetia and Chechnya (1991–2009).” Russian Analytical Digest, no. 86 (2010): 4–7.
- Sokirianskaia, Ekaterina. “Reliable’ and ‘unreliable’ Peoples : The Ingush-Ossetian Conflict and Prospects for Post-Beslan Reconciliation.” In Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe, edited by Pamela Kilpadi, 45–62. Policy Perspectives. Budapest; New York: International Policy Fellowships, Open Society Institute ; Central European University Press, 2007. www.policy.hu/ipf/policyperspectives/B04-ES-PostBeslan.pdf.