Current position at the Institute
Researcher in the Russia in the Regional and Global Context -research programme

Academic degree
PhD (International Relations), St Petersburg State University

Professional experience

Member, Crisis Management Inititative

Junior Fellow, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA, 2007-2008
Visiting Researcher, The Moscow Higher School of Economics, 2007

Visiting Research Fellow, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2007

Recent publications
Former Soviet states aren't just Russian paws. Stefanie Ortmann & Vadim Kononenko, Guardian.co.uk, 20.4.2010.

Russia energy efficiency initiatives - a window of opportunity for the EU? Baltic Rim Economies 1/2010.

Russia: Shattered hopes, unexpected outcomes, uncertain future. K. Kurki (ed.), T. Archer, V. Kononenko, M. Nojonen, R. Väyrynen. The Great Regression? Financial Crisis in an Age of Global Interdependence. FIIA Report 20, 2009.

"Can't Buy Me Love": Will the global economic downturn help Russia consolidate its influence in post-Soviet Eurasia? Vadim Kononenko & Igor Torbakov, FIIA Briefing Paper 38, 2009.

Strategic Loneliness, The World Today July 2009

Venäjä metsästää kadonnutta ideaansa (yhdessä Katri Pynnöniemen kanssa), Ulkopolitiikka 4/2006

"EU BAM Moldova After One Year: Assessing the EU's Security Promotion at the Separatist Border"
CFSP Forum, vol 4 Issue 5, September 2006 http://www.fornet.info/documents/CFSP%20Forum%20vol%204%20no%205.pdf

"Normal Neighbours" or "troublemakers"? The Baltic states in the context of Russia-EU relations, teoksessa Anders Kasekamp (ed) The Estonian Foreign Policy Yearbook 2006

New Departures on the EU-Russian Border. Assessing Discourses and Policy Practices. Journal of Borderland Studies Volume 20, N2 Fall 2005

Kiistanalainen klubi saa omalaatuisen johtajan, Ulkopolitiikka 2/06

Creating Russia's image?, Russia in Global Affairs, April-May, N2 2006

Languages
Russian, English, Swedish, German